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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve been very critical of Alice and GOMI here and I liked Armstrong writing back in the day but was never a member of her website tbh.  My criticism isn’t coming from a place of hurt.  I just think the extreme hate and speculation and lies that are encouraged on GOMI help no one and actually hurt.  I’m not saying it’s responsible for this suicide, but did all this weird invective contribute to her problems at times? It’s so personal!  Why would you think it wouldn’t?

GOMI would post pictures of bloggers husbands and speculate from the pics that they were gay — like dozens of comments under one pic. Wholly obscene and personal comments were allowed even when flagged.  Who is this helping?  What is it contributing, exactly?

When Dooce created her Monitizing the Hate website where she made money by reposting some of the absolutely batsh&t mean comments that were sent to her and got ad revenue off them, I called it a masterful jujitsu mindf@ck.  GOMI hated it, of course.

Now Alice, who over the years wrote LITERALLY THOUSANDS of posts and comments criticizing Armstrong’s writing, life, appearance, parenting, blog, marriage, etc, has posted about dooce’s suicide and is making ad revenue off those page views.  That’s a mindf@ck too, in its own way — to make money from the death of your nemesis.  Not really masterful, more like sad. I’m sure no one over at GOMI is saying this. Or if they are, their comments are getting deleted.

Dooce is super problematic, but I thought she was a genuinely good writer, and I’ll take her over GOMI any day. [/quote]

Yes to all of this. [/quote]

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