Argument Ad Feminam: The Use of Gendered Attacks to Discredit the Women Participating in the 2020  Hearings of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol

Author(s):
Herbeck, Dale A.; Mehltretter Drury, Sara A.
Editor(s):
Boogaart, Ronny; Garssen, Bart; Jansen, Henrike; Van Leeuwen, Maarten; Pilgram, Roosmaryn; Reuneker, Alex
Published
2024
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

This analysis focuses on argument ad feminam, a distinctive form of the abusive ad hominem fallacy in which an argumentative claim is discounted because a woman made it. As a case study, we focus on the gendered attacks that Donald Trump and his surrogates used to discredit the women who testified in the televised hearings conducted by the Select Committee to Investigate the Attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2020 .

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Date issued
2024
Language
English
Is part of
Proceedings of the Tenth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (2024), p. 355-364
hdl
1887/4107805

Conference

Meeting name
10th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA 2023)
Meeting location
Leiden, The Netherlands
Meeting date
2023-07-04 - 2023-07-07