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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Give me vintage dooce any day over today's carefully curated influencers with staged photos that hide all the imperfections and make normal people feel inferior.[/b]

I remember thinking dooce was a little like the Erma Bombeck whose humor columns about homemaking and kids I grew up reading, except more sped up and modern and with a lot more cursing and dogs.

Girls Gone Child was another blog I used to follow.  She wrote a Peter Pan movie, and her husband died of cancer, and she's raising her kids alone now.  Mighty Girl was another one that's long since disappeared.  Momversation.  The Bloggie awards.  I like the Cory Doctorow quote the PP above wrote.  It started off really nice, as a community.

The Sound of Music kids grew up to write about how their nanny exploited them.  Child actors get their money taken by their parents all the time.  There really should be rules about what you are and aren't allowed to publish online or on social media.  That said, at what point is the experience your kids and at what point is it your own, as a parent?  There is value to writing about the ins-and-outs of raising children -- I know because I used to get good tips from some of those old blogs.  Sure, you keep the most sensitive info to yourself or discuss with friends.  But we're not, and shouldn't be, banning books with stories about raising kids in them.

I think now, 20 (?) years after it all started, some of those old time bloggers should get together and write a proposed set of standards for mommy and daddy blogging, based on the fallout from their own experiences.  I think people would find it useful![/quote]

This is such a rube’s take. It was and is ALL garbage, and the curation by Dooce was as extreme as a Millenial-pink swathed latte-addict travel blogger. ALL of the OG bloggers eventually had their houses of cards fall down. It was all always bullshit to seem so rill like wine mom with mastitis really rill. It’s all so goddamned dumb, and that’s fine, but it’s not exactly writing. And the Cool Girl who was actually a rill mess is fundamentally boring, which is the saddest thing of all.[/quote]

If anyone is trying to pull of "Cool Girl" here, it's you -- trying to convince people who were genuinely moved by Armstrong's writing that they simply have no taste, that they were fooled by the photos (as though taking compelling photos of home life is not in itself an art form), that if we were all just a little more discerning, we'd see through it all.

You are mistaking criticism for judgment and speaking without even a hint of humility. Dooce, at her best, engaged in something that too few writers today are willing to touch -- vulnerability. She was willing to expose her own ugliness to the world, and comment on it, and had the gaul not to be embarrassed by it. It liberated many of us who had spent entire lives hiding our ugliness, believing it to be unfeminine and embarrassing. Turns out it was just our humanity, is all. [/quote]

Gall not gaul. I mean.

You have poor judgment and worse taste, and yes, no discernment. The idea that publishing whether online or in print rejects vulnerability and strains, achingly (so achingly) for perfection is funny. False, but funny. I’m glad Dooce set you free.[/quote]

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