Mind & EverydayFact
The argument you never actually made.
A straw man appears when someone restates your position in a distorted form and then refutes the distortion. You say “we should eat less meat”, the reply is “so you want to force everyone to go vegan”. The weaker copy is easy to knock down – your real point stays untouched.
Useful: Respond with a redirect: “That isn’t what I said. Can we return to my actual point?”
Source: en.wikipedia.org