Oh, yeah, I was absolutely taking the piss. More specifically, I was exaggerating my understanding of your position to make a tiny satire of it, because I think it's a laughable position.

That's different than misrepresenting it or building a strawman, because no reasonable person would think I was trying to faithfully represent your unexaggerated views. It's also different from punching down -- that generally refers to taking aim at a group that's at a societal disadvantage relative to yourself, which I'm not attempting to do.

But sure, I was taking the piss. I'll accept that it would have been more charitable to wait to see you elaborate on your take. I've had the chance to see you do that elsewhere in this thread, though, and it only made me disagree with you more, so I think my instincts were pretty on point.

The bit about Helen Lovejoy wasn't an example of anything, it was a reference to her catchphrase: "wont somebody think of the children???!", applied when children are in no danger whatsoever.