Comments on Profile Post by hmm

For example, if someone says "I'm a girl, but I believe women always preform less well then men", which is supposed to give some sort of credit to their argument that wouldn't be there otherwise without the mention of the person's identity

Iirc formal fallacy

nah, that's an entire division of fallacies

If we want to be specific, that type of argument is a fallacy called Argumentum Verecundia.

I don't think you asked what type of argument that was, however. But, knowing which type of fallacy can help you answer your question.

Argumentum Verecundia Is when you make an argument from authority. So, in other words, if you're X, you feel entitled to do this and that just because you're X.

This argument in particular uses authority to differ from popular opinion.

However, I don't think it's always a fallacy. The reason is because of stereotypes. Stereotypes are which define a certain group from certain behaviors.

So, if you're saying it to prove against stereotypes, then it's not a fallacy.

However, if you're using it to validate that— in this particular example—men are better, then it is a fallacy since your authority doesn't defines that.

Is there a specific fallacy though for those who go with the opposite of their identity's majority and use that to legitimate their argument, though?

it's still argumentum Verecundia. When you oppose of the stereotype, you're reclaiming authority, since for many people stereotypes act as their authority.

however, since stereotypes are popular opinion, it is also an argumentum ad populum.

So, those type of arguments are just ones that oppose the popular opinion by using their authority as a man/woman/X

well, is there a more specific subset of fallacy?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

Perhaps there is, you can research that on your own, though. It doesn't really matters what fallacy is, as long as you know why it's a fallacy.

personally, I don't necessarily think the argument of "I'm a woman but I believe women always perform less well than men" is a fallacy, since I think the person is trying to say there isn't sexist bias behind her thoughts. However, the argument is incomplete since she never explains why women are actually weaker.

So, if this person was trying to convince me with that argument, that women are weaker, that then it is a fallacy.

But, if she was using it to say her thoughts aren't biased, then it's pretty valid. However, it's still missing an explanation after clarifying you aren't biased.

The context in how the argument was used changes if it is a fallacy or an incomplete argument

With all that said, if the person used that argument to try and convince you, since it's a fallacy, I could say that person has loath towards herself since she may not even know why she thinks of herself weak against men.