Elle
Since: Jan, 2001
#27: Jul 21st 2011 at 6:45:14 PM
The misrepresentation may be that the extreme position is the default position, no? (I'm thinking most portyayals of Straw Capitalist...)
...I coulda sworn we had Straw Capitalist separate from Strawman Political.
edited 21st Jul '11 6:46:58 PM by Elle
ChaoticNovelist
Since: Jun, 2010
#28: Jul 21st 2011 at 8:56:25 PM
I looked at the article for Straw Feminist and it was short, concise and to the point. It's got plenty of wicks and links. I don't see a problem.
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#29: Jul 21st 2011 at 9:30:08 PM
It recently got repaired I believe. "Angry rant in the description" was the previous problem I believe, which tends to crop up in certain themes.
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Does it need to be "misrepresented" or is that focusing on the wrong half of the fallacy in relating it to storytelling? The fallacy has two parts: misrepresentation, and "set it up solely to knock it down". The misrepresentation part is fuzzy at best, but the 'set it up purely to knock it down' part is usually pretty clear.
For something like feminism especially, it's almost impossible to misrepresent any one type — no matter how mild or militant, you can almost certainly find a few feminists who hold to that line. You can misrepresent how widespread it is, but even the most misandrist all-men-deserve-to-die militant feminism has some people who actually feel that way.
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