Dooce

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Anonymous wrote:Why are you reposting pics from her blog without comment?

New poster, but I would imagine to show how frighteningly thin she is.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the post still there, now I'm curious! I only see a post from 2009 on her website...

Same!

This has happened before - same sort of crazy post was removed. I think either she comes out of whatever state of mind she was in and erases it or whoever is still in her life does.

I feel really badly for her. She is clearly in a very bad place mentally. It has to be hard for everyone around her.

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Anonymous wrote:I just read (or rather tried to read) the post at www.dooce.com. Is she coming out as a trans person? That was crazy $hit. 👀

Only if she hates herself as it's horribly transphobic.

But alas, being outrageous is how to get attention nowadays it seems.

She's equating her body dysmorphia (manifesting as Anorexia) with the body dysmorphia of trans people. And the Adderral she was given that "helped" her maintain anorexia as the equivalent of giving trans people testosterone to fix their own dysmorphia.

I think. It's a mess.

This is a very good summary and the way I interpreted it all as well. Plus, she has finally admitted after years and years of claiming that nausea him that she is just naturally thin while purposely posting pictures that can only be interpreted as pro anorexic, fashion is, in fact, anorexic, has been for nearly 40 years, and received that as an official diagnosis last August when she was institutionalized for attempting suicide. Also, apparently she has done heroin and meth and Coke and a bunch of other drugs? She has a series of very evident mental health issues, of course. We all know those who have read her before. But even answer me free of so many different directions, I don’t buy any of it for hot minute. Her youngest is spending more and more time in New York with her dad, and the eldest is going to school many time zones away from her. All very telling. And as it should be.

Her oldest is in boarding school??

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Sad. Interesting to see someone 10 years later (I read a little of her back in the early days but wasn’t a fan or anything) and see where she ended up. I wonder where I will end up.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never really followed her so maybe I don’t understand her writing style, but it sure sounds like she’s had some kind of psychotic break.

This. She is severely mentally ill. I kind of wish whoever is helping her out would post something afterwards. If anyone is helping her out, that is. I'm not sure I really believe her account of 22 years of drinking herself to death. I am not sure if that post is still up but she described pouring vodka into all types of containers, even on travel. It's a little hard to believe.

I actually like Dooce and liked her earlier writing. In a certain way, a serious addiction would actually make a lot of sense in retrospect. But who knows.

+1 i think in retrospect we are starting to understand that the extremely prolific, extremely personal-detail-sharing bloggers and influencers were not a product of their time -- ie, blogging in the 2000-2010s or Instagram in 2020 or whatever -- but people living with untreated addictions and/or mental illnesses who connected with the medium of the moment. you can't seek out and work to keep at being a bigtime blogger or influencer on the internet and be a truly mentally healthy person.

i wish her the best and the help she deserves. sad story.

Hmm, like Natalie Jean? I do'nt really think so. I can't think of another who has issues anywhere close to Dooce. Not writers anyway. For some reason I can think of YouTubers though.

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Anonymous wrote:I just read (or rather tried to read) the post at www.dooce.com. Is she coming out as a trans person? That was crazy $hit. 👀

Only if she hates herself as it's horribly transphobic.

But alas, being outrageous is how to get attention nowadays it seems.

She's equating her body dysmorphia (manifesting as Anorexia) with the body dysmorphia of trans people. And the Adderral she was given that "helped" her maintain anorexia as the equivalent of giving trans people testosterone to fix their own dysmorphia.

I think. It's a mess.

This is a very good summary and the way I interpreted it all as well. Plus, she has finally admitted after years and years of claiming that nausea him that she is just naturally thin while purposely posting pictures that can only be interpreted as pro anorexic, fashion is, in fact, anorexic, has been for nearly 40 years, and received that as an official diagnosis last August when she was institutionalized for attempting suicide. Also, apparently she has done heroin and meth and Coke and a bunch of other drugs? She has a series of very evident mental health issues, of course. We all know those who have read her before. But even answer me free of so many different directions, I don’t buy any of it for hot minute. Her youngest is spending more and more time in New York with her dad, and the eldest is going to school many time zones away from her. All very telling. And as it should be.

Her oldest is in boarding school??

Going to college in Pennsylvania

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I saw that she deleted all her IG posts about being supportive of Marlo’s gender identity and the only post up is one explaining how awesome and perfect Marlo’s name is. I can’t help but wonder if Marlo is actually going by a different name and this is Dooce withdrawing support.

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Anonymous wrote:I saw that she deleted all her IG posts about being supportive of Marlo’s gender identity and the only post up is one explaining how awesome and perfect Marlo’s name is. I can’t help but wonder if Marlo is actually going by a different name and this is Dooce withdrawing support.

Marlo is absolutely changing their name. Name changes by trans people got multiple paragraphs of ranting in the original screed.

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I loved Dooce in her hey-day. She was funny and irreverent and brilliant at handling a lot of the hate that came her way. She built an internet empire. She was messy in the best way, and was so relatable.

But after things fell apart with Jon, her posts made less and less sense. She started vague-blogging with clear messages to certain people, but it made it all confusing. I stopped reading her rambling blog posts that were no longer funny. But I followed her on IG for awhile. But even that became unbearable. She looked rail thin, was clearly suffering from SOMETHING but would deny deny deny. It just got...sad? And like the attention was not helping. She needed space and quiet perhaps to heal. I finally had to unfollow her because I could only take so many rambling posts with endless pictures of her looking like a skeleton while denying she had an eating disorder.

2008 Dooce was amazing. But she just seems to have lost her way so intensely. It makes me sad. I hope her kids are ok.

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Anonymous wrote:I saw that she deleted all her IG posts about being supportive of Marlo’s gender identity and the only post up is one explaining how awesome and perfect Marlo’s name is. I can’t help but wonder if Marlo is actually going by a different name and this is Dooce withdrawing support.

Marlo is absolutely changing their name. Name changes by trans people got multiple paragraphs of ranting in the original screed.

What's interesting is that Marlo is a name that works so well for both genders.

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Anonymous wrote:I saw that she deleted all her IG posts about being supportive of Marlo’s gender identity and the only post up is one explaining how awesome and perfect Marlo’s name is. I can’t help but wonder if Marlo is actually going by a different name and this is Dooce withdrawing support.

Marlo is absolutely changing their name. Name changes by trans people got multiple paragraphs of ranting in the original screed.

What's interesting is that Marlo is a name that works so well for both genders.

That’s not the full criteria when people choose to change their names when they transition.

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Anonymous wrote:I saw that she deleted all her IG posts about being supportive of Marlo’s gender identity and the only post up is one explaining how awesome and perfect Marlo’s name is. I can’t help but wonder if Marlo is actually going by a different name and this is Dooce withdrawing support.

Or Marlo doesn't want to be a public commodity. Or the family has decided it's better that it not be hugely public for whatever reasons.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved Dooce in her hey-day. She was funny and irreverent and brilliant at handling a lot of the hate that came her way. She built an internet empire. She was messy in the best way, and was so relatable.

But after things fell apart with Jon, her posts made less and less sense. She started vague-blogging with clear messages to certain people, but it made it all confusing. I stopped reading her rambling blog posts that were no longer funny. But I followed her on IG for awhile. But even that became unbearable. She looked rail thin, was clearly suffering from SOMETHING but would deny deny deny. It just got...sad? And like the attention was not helping. She needed space and quiet perhaps to heal. I finally had to unfollow her because I could only take so many rambling posts with endless pictures of her looking like a skeleton while denying she had an eating disorder.

2008 Dooce was amazing. But she just seems to have lost her way so intensely. It makes me sad. I hope her kids are ok.

I think she's probably been mentally ill all along. And if the addiction stuff is true, then she was really good at hiding the train wreck that was going on.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved Dooce in her hey-day. She was funny and irreverent and brilliant at handling a lot of the hate that came her way. She built an internet empire. She was messy in the best way, and was so relatable.

But after things fell apart with Jon, her posts made less and less sense. She started vague-blogging with clear messages to certain people, but it made it all confusing. I stopped reading her rambling blog posts that were no longer funny. But I followed her on IG for awhile. But even that became unbearable. She looked rail thin, was clearly suffering from SOMETHING but would deny deny deny. It just got...sad? And like the attention was not helping. She needed space and quiet perhaps to heal. I finally had to unfollow her because I could only take so many rambling posts with endless pictures of her looking like a skeleton while denying she had an eating disorder.

2008 Dooce was amazing. But she just seems to have lost her way so intensely. It makes me sad. I hope her kids are ok.

I think she's probably been mentally ill all along. And if the addiction stuff is true, then she was really good at hiding the train wreck that was going on.

Of course she was mentally ill all along. She was open about that. Which was nice because it’s really helpful for those of us with mental illness to see others working through it and making their way in the world.

And honestly this is kind of nice too, it’s like “well now I know how I don’t want to be.”

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Having seen what mental illness and/or addiction can do to some of the most wonderful people I know, I really curdle at the word "crazy." I also loved Dooce's blog back in the day. She had an original voice at a time when there weren't many original voices in mommy blogging. I thought she loved Jon and the girls quite fiercely, unvarnished, not in a "Families are Forever" Utah sort of way as she had been raised, but in a "this will always take a lot of work" sort of way. And I also suspected that she wasn't always going to be up to the task of a nuclear family, so wasn't surprised when it fell apart. I hope she has support now.