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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bloggers and influencer are narcissists. In order to satisfy their need for praise and attention they exploit their marriages, children, and all personal relationships. Such a sad life. Caring more about strangers on the Internet than the real people in their lives. [/quote]

Dooce typically went further than that because of her overlapping illnesses. She slept with the husbands of two friends, she launched a grenade into the TERF battlefields despite having a child exploding their identities. It’s all bad, and so was the writing, for me even at the beginning.

But. I do think she made a lot of women feel less alone and there is value in that. I do think she showed that the process of addiction recovery is really fraught and that multiple painful failures are the norm - and that is truly brave. I wish some part of her had kept the clarity that this was a painful moment or moments she was suffering through, and that she could have let those bad moments take their awful time so that she might outlive all of the wretched impulses. Heather was in her late 40s, when hormonal fluctuations add to the pressures women are typically under. It’s a bad layer that may have smothered her on top of the MI and whichever substance. Maybe in death, she will help other women, particularly her fans, hold on and try to live through the moments that feel unbearable. [/quote]

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