In Heather's speech against breastfeeding in public, she says, "These women are angry because we won't let them flash their breasts at strangers in public! What decent person wants to see that"? Because Heather is trying to refute an argument that supporters of breastfeeding in public never actually made, Heather is engaging what type of fallacy?

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Heather is misrepresenting the argument of those who support breastfeeding in public by exaggerating their position in a way that is easier to attack, which is characteristic of a straw man fallacy.

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