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> Nordstroms took a hit for few minutes before coming out slightly ahead.

That effect is most likely due to automated traders trying to profit from Trumps tweets.

That's true, which means any algorithm would also have to take the nature of the company being tweeted about into consideration.

From a recent Fresh Air interview with Trevor Noah. Earlier on he explains with a more personal anecdote why simpler language matters. But is there such a thing as too simple? Is 8th grade language more effective than 4th grade language? Later on Trevor Noah says

  You know, funny enough, one of the biggest moments of
  realization was when Donald Trump won the election because
  when I came into the show, I said, I think this guy can win.
  This was when he first came down that escalator. He gave his
  first speech.

  And then I was like, wow, this guy's going to do well. And I
  remember people laughed at me. People were like, oh, you
  silly ignorant person who's just come to this world. You
  clearly shouldn't be at "The Daily Show" 'cause you don't
  know what you're talking about. And I was like, but I don't
  know. He seems like he connects with people. I can relate to
  him as a performer. I can see what tools he's using. He's
  good at riffing. He's good at taking the crowd on a journey.
  I can see what he's doing.

  And people would say - and all throughout the race - and
  there were times when, on the show, I would mention it. You
  know, I mean, that's why I said Trump reminds me of an
  African dictator. And that's where that came from because
  everyone said to me, this guy is - he's just a fool. He's
  just - he's a buffoon. I said, yeah, you can say that. But
  I've seen this before. I have seen this before. I've seen
  clowns that go on to take over their countries. I've seen
  buffoons who end up ruling their worlds. And it came to
  pass.

  Source: http://www.npr.org/2016/12/16/505847054/trevor-noah-says-he-grew-up-in-the-shadow-of-a-giant-his-mom

> I assure you my daughter is very real and ceased to be a hypothetical about a year ago

Heh. "Hypothetical child or children of unspecified gender".

> Calling it "weakness" to gravitate towards something that other members of your gender are doing is misplaced

There's a difference between doing something and discovering that most of the people doing it are your gender, and doing something that a higher-power (the event organizers) made gender-segregated.

And I don't mean there's a weakness in the person choosing the activity, I mean there's an apparent one you the parent are compensating for. Like if the event in question was basketball camps and you put your child in "Basketball for Short & Slow People". All the female-only events have a real taint of keeping out the strong performers so the weak can win too. imho it changes things from a primarily female-centric event which happens to cover programming to a people-centric event which forbids the "obviously" superior boys. What better way to make people feel second-class?

> I'm not so naive to think that those were exactly welcoming enviornments for women.

Agreed. But that seems like the problem to solve, by making sure that the events we organize aren't hostile to anyone. But anyone is far wider than women, and the offenders are far more diverse than men.

> I don't really understand what "handicaps" the existence of an all-girl coding camp represents to men or boys.

Not that there is a handicap, but that your son would feel like he's being given one so that he's on equal footing - just because he's male.

> Who is getting really, genuinely hurt by this, in your opinion?

Everyone. Both children, and all of society.

Your daughter would feel less sense of accomplishment, your son would feel that his success is less important to you than hers or that he's already good so why strive. Children of either gender who don't learn in the stereotypical way the group leaders think they should and are thus less-served by the program. Trans kids would suffer from more physical-gender stereotyping and all these gender-specific camps would just prolong gender segregation for everyone.

It's not an either-or question though. I don't think you should ignore traditional sexism, which I agree is huge pretty much everywhere including many classrooms. But I think we should do more-inclusive things, not less, to combat it. Things that help everyone, not that exclude.

There's a real reason to have mentors who look like you, in whatever ways you see yourself, but not I think, to be separated from those who are different.

>so why are those professions predominantly occupied by men

Same tired old crap. The profession is predominantly occupied by men because that's the ratio of males/females in graduating classes. You can have all of the male-hating programming clubs you want, but trying to solve some perceived systematic discrimination of an entire profession that reflects the student supply is ignorant sexism.

I applaud anyone who has the integrity to stand up against discriminatory groups like this, particularly when the mainstream discrimination is supported by a lot of people such as yourself.