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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GOMI is owned and written by someone named Alice.  She posts things about other people who write on the internet, mostly.  She gets the most views by being entertainingly critical, and encourages people who post comments to see things in the same glass-half-empty-and-people-especially-mommybloggers-are-awful-amirite? way way she does.

At some point about 10 years ago after a bunch of negative stories about Dooce, Alice posted something like "Dooce Fakes a Break" saying ... I think that dooce was pretending to need a break from her website (when she was going through a divorce and financial difficulties).  Alice ultimately took the post down because she had no substantiation for the "fakes" part -- after armstrong hired a lawyer and basically made her take it down, according to what Alice wrote on GOMI.  From this, Alice labeled Dooce as a bully and then continued to make post after post criticizing her, to the point where she is now apparently posting about her death, and now the cycle is complete, amen.

Dooce has her own wikipedia page -- she became internet famous because she wrote about her job on her website and was one of the first people to get fired for that.  Later she wrote about her post-partum depression and her family and her kids and her dogs.  She was funny.  She had problems with alcohol and depression.[/quote]

Clearly you are a huge Dooce fangirl. Does that mean you are also transphobic? [/quote]

I'm actually not.  And I agree it can be problematic to write about your kids.  Truly and honestly I just really hate GOMI.  I absolutely hate that the owner does exactly the same crap that she mocks other bloggers for doing, and worse!  And now to post about this!  You spend your whole life mocking other people -- that's what her website was, one mocking post after another -- and then when they ultimately commit suicide you write another post about it, and profit off the pageviews you get, and in your mind you are totally removed from the whole cycle of what happened.  You're not connecting these two events at all.

What are the defenses for GOMI at this point?  "These bloggers do bad things so we should do bad things to them."  Are you twelve?  It's fine to say that you don't think writers should write openly about their kid's lives, but when everything you write on your website is a florid and nasty takedown, and you want all your commenters to take everybody down even harder, what are you contributing?  What are you accomplishing, exactly?

Don't go there and don't contribute to it.  [/quote]

How is DCUM any different than GOMI? Yet you're still here.[/quote]

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