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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So on top of all the time spent here, you all really spend a lot of time reading poorly written half truths about women’s lives. I cannot believe how seriously people take bloggers like this. I can’t believe it is therapeutic or helpful in any way. [/quote]

What she did wasn’t really writing, it was preening. I’m so sorry she passed. However, and her lunatic fans will freak — none of her shtick would have worked but for her initial happy life, thinness, prettiness. The writing was never there, she is not Mary Carr or Leslie Jamison. It always required pictures and cool-girl blasé bullshit balanced with meltdowns. It was always stupid and squawking and without much to it, all hat and no cattle. But it gave a lot of ugly comfort to some women, as they were less divorced. Less f’ed up. Less drunk. Less scrutinized. And so forth. It was always gross, but it netted Armstrong a lot of money. I wish she’d found some medication and therapeutic plan that actually worked for her. I don’t actually think she’s more gifted than the banal, stupid Jo from Cup of Jo. But Jo was luckier.[/quote]

You are the judge of what constitutes great literature?  This made me laugh.

Before yesterday, I was vaguely aware of this woman’s existence, but had never read anything she had written.  Now I have, I can say that the impact of her mental illness is clear is clear, but she is a far more naturally talented writer than you will ever be, and definitely a better human being. [/quote]

I have been scanning this thread here and there, amazed at the people who continue to hold this blogger up as a literary hero. How can you know about her tirades against her own daughter, after sharing their entire life for the world to dissect, and then come here defending her as a better "human being" then anybody? There was a poster above who claimed those of us who don't adore her and lack empathy for this woman who raised her children while addicted to meth must "not be very bright." I cannot fathom how low intelligence you all, who cannot understand what was wrong not just with "Dooce," but with the entire culture of "mommy bloggers," must actually be. [/quote]

These fans had and will apparently forever have intense parasocial relationships with that generation of bloggers. Mess.[/quote]

DP. I haven't read Dooce in maybe 10 years. I am highly opposed to affairs, and I have a nonbinary kid and I think Heather's parenting in that regard was BAD. I just hate a website that exists solely to trash other people particularly when it is a widely-known fact that the people in question have a mental illness and a history of suicidal ideation. It is really sad that as a society we make so many excuses for treating others poorly. [/quote]

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