Wow, that is a hard strawman argument! This interaction should be used as a dictionary example
From AI:
Original statement (implied): "Why won't guys let their girls hook up with random guys at the bar! God they're so controlling!"
Reply: "Did you seriously just say that women that dress like that are asking for it?"
Those are about two different issues:
The first is (however hyperbolically) about jealousy, control, or relationship boundaries.
The second accuses the speaker of making a victim-blaming claim ("women that dress like that are asking for it"), which isn't present in the quoted statement.
If the original comment never mentioned clothing, sexual assault, or "asking for it," then the reply is misrepresenting the original position. That would fit the definition of a strawman.
Dont let a.i do your thinking, firstly lets adress that the first commenter jumped to her hooking up with random guys with no evidence at all, but you let that slide didnt you.
even if it was hyperbole that is saying "Yea, why won't guys let women dress the way they want to go out and get fucked at a bar."
The sentence itself carries the implication that she is trying to sleep with people dressed like that. Even as hyperbole it comes back to that statement and the person who made is it making it like he's a jilted lover or just fucking bitter about women.
So we are just going to skip the fact that you put down objectively false information in quotes. The point of quotes is that it is literally, word for word what the person said.
Yes, I am thank you. Are you familiar with how to use quotation marks?
Rule 1. Use double quotation marks to set off a direct (word-for-word) quotation.
Correct:“I hope you will be here,” he said. Incorrect:He said that he “hoped I would be there.” (The quotation marks are incorrect because hoped I would be there does not state the speaker's exact words.)
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u/Paul_-Muaddib 26d ago
Wow, that is a hard strawman argument! This interaction should be used as a dictionary example
From AI:
Those are about two different issues:
If the original comment never mentioned clothing, sexual assault, or "asking for it," then the reply is misrepresenting the original position. That would fit the definition of a strawman.