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My favorite comment...a tad subtle:

> During the first semester of my daughter's junior/senior year, she took her first programming class. She knew I'd be thrilled, but she did it anyway.

Edit: before anyone harangues me, I don't mean to take away from the shitty circumstances surrounding the core message in the post, just got a chuckle out of the subtle dad/daughter humor inserted.

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Agreed it was a clever comment, but it's a mom/daughter thing (not dad/daughter).

> dad/daughter humor inserted.

Not to be a dick, but you may be guilty of a little benign sexism yourself there... the author is a woman.

> Not to be a dick

Not to be a dick, but doesn't saying Not to be a dick mean you're being a dick but saying it's okay?

Hehe, yeah... sorry for that.

sure, i assumed wrong..stand corrected, but benign sexism...i'm just going to respectfully disagree.

She first mentions such halfway through the article, and her writing style is masculine. Even I guessed (not assumed) male until that point. <shrug>

what does "her writing style is masculine" even MEAN?

Dunno, now that you mention it. There’s some research[1] that correlates word choice and grammatical structure with author gender, predicting gender with ~80% accuracy. Presumably I do something like that without thinking about it.

[1]: Shlomo Argamon, Moshe Koppel, Jonathan Fine, and Anat Rachel Shimoni: Gender, Genre, and Writing Style in Formal Written Texts

Mother/daughter. I also liked that.

Try mother/daughter.

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