What is the appeal of Glennon Doyle

[Anonymous]

LIVE LAUGH LOVE

Her brand, the whole “warrior!” genre, feels inauthentic and cheesily opportunistic to me.

[Anonymous]

I agree. A friend made me buy her book and I could hardly finish the first quarter of it. It was not enlightening and the author seems so insufferable to me.

[Anonymous]

With the caveat that I personally am not drawn to her, I think her whole thing about how being a mom is hard, marriage is messy, it's okay to be falling apart even when you have a ridiculous amount of privilege etc. resonates with a very specific type of UMC mom who feels (rightly or wrongly) like there isn't a place for them to complain or be messy in society, at least as they perceive it. She has reframed not having your life together as personal growth and authenticity, which gives her followers permission to lean into the mess instead of fixing it.

[Anonymous]

She’s a total fraud. Never liked her brand. Seems totally fake and narcissistic to me.

[Anonymous]

#messylesbiansagainstglennon

I feel like I'm totally her demographic and I don't get her appeal at all. When you make your mess that public, It's not just about you. The other people in your life who had no choice in the matter also have to deal with the fallout of mess + publicity.

[Anonymous]

Awful

[Anonymous]

Yuck.

[Anonymous]

NoVa social media/wine-mom gone wild!

I'd love to get her jilted ex-husband's take on all of this. I bet she forced an NDA on him.

[Anonymous]

She had to have posted on DCUM, right?

No way in hell she wasn't on this site while raising kids in Centreville.

[Anonymous]

I only learned of her after she met her now-wife, and I think she’s amazing. I love her takes on authenticity, love, parenting, race, gay rights, etc. Her new book, Untamed, is fantastic. Also kind of hard to read, because it makes me think so critically about my situation in life.

She’s the only blogger/social media personality I can stand.

[Anonymous]

It just feels like leaping from crisis to crisis, revelation to revelation, for the exploitative sake of oversharing (used as a guise to relate to people).
I feel like what she's discovering out loud, many hardworking people have known for a long time. Life is messy, nobody's perfect, and that's OK. Living your life doesn't make you a "warrior." Am I missing something here?

[Anonymous]

three words =
abby wambach spouse

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I only learned of her after she met her now-wife, and I think she’s amazing. I love her takes on authenticity, love, parenting, race, gay rights, etc. Her new book, Untamed, is fantastic. Also kind of hard to read, because it makes me think so critically about my situation in life.

She’s the only blogger/social media personality I can stand.

I find her style really elemental and overwrought.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I only learned of her after she met her now-wife, and I think she’s amazing. I love her takes on authenticity, love, parenting, race, gay rights, etc. Her new book, Untamed, is fantastic. Also kind of hard to read, because it makes me think so critically about my situation in life.

She’s the only blogger/social media personality I can stand.

That book was ridiculous. I tried. Incredibly cringy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I only learned of her after she met her now-wife, and I think she’s amazing. I love her takes on authenticity, love, parenting, race, gay rights, etc. Her new book, Untamed, is fantastic. Also kind of hard to read, because it makes me think so critically about my situation in life.

She’s the only blogger/social media personality I can stand.

I find her style really elemental and overwrought.

Probably but I don’t mind it. I don’t read her for her writing style.