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"Well, women always complaining about clothes, saying their body is only natural. Alright, thats fair. But i then asked a question. Why then do you embarrass men who have visible erections? We don't control when we have erections. Besides, it's NATURAL. Isn't that what you said about women wearing revealing clothes?"
My teacher then butts in and accuses me of being sexist. I then demand him to offer an explanation as to why, and pointed out that it was an obvious double standard. He then writes me up and says that I will be in huge trouble for quote to quote "promoting slut shaming and being misogynistic"
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Your teacher was correct. You said it yourself: your exact words were "women always complaining..."; by framing your Strawman Argument in this manner (an example you should have used instead is when a guy's pants are too low and you can see his underwear), you have forced the other side to refute that all women are always complaining about clothes rather than discuss the alleged double-standard. However, even that much would have been off-topic. You said that the subject of debate was whether you agreed with Third-Wave Feminism or were against it.
Naturally, you were called out for sexism but rather than reframing the question you doubled-down on the fallacy and made a scene. It would have been better to quietly accept the rebuke and discuss it with the teacher calmly after the class; you would have had time to think your arguments through and you wouldn't have escalated things with your classmates.
