Margaret Mitchell draws pile-on for using straw-person instead of straw-man
mmitchell_ai · x · 2026-09-28
Former Google AI ethics researcher Margaret Mitchell is being piled on for using "straw-person" instead of "straw-man" in an academic argument. She notes her critics share a common trait and points to Miller & Swift's "Words & Words on Women"—actually "Words & Women"—as a compelling discussion of how default male language shapes everyone's biases.
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