What This “Dooce” is About
One day the Renegade Moms were sitting around in their Nick and Nora pajamas, drinking Starbucks coffee and Good Earth jasmine green tea, sharing ricockulous stories about their kids and pets, laughing and crying about dumb comments left on their Pinchin’ a Dooce posts and other intelligent and funny mom-blog friends when The Dog, who is known for being the most retarded animal on the planet, had an idea. She barked, know what you should do? You should take all that bullshit Dooce fans write ad nauseum, put it on your own site and cover the thing with ads. And the Renegade Moms were all, damn! That bitch is smarter than the Heathers! So Dooce fans, here’s to you! And we did it all ourselves, no husbands involved.
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Love from Renegade Moms comments:
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“I’d pick Heather and Jon as parents over you any day. A little wackiness, honesty and dancing around the kitchen sure beats someone who takes themselves too seriously, is angry and judgemental and watches Dr. Phil.”
“Talk about needing medication. You should look into some, RM1.”
“…what’s up with slamming dooce? Her audience is mainstream and unlike most of us, her blog has turned into her income source, which means that she’s now an entertainer, not just a “regular person”…. oh the pressure. She has a knack for taking the mundane and making it dramatic and funny, all while treading into new territory around how to keep it going when you’ve got a million people following you on Twitter and hundreds of thousands reading your blog daily.”
“You are all sad and pathetic for writing such terrible, outlandish things about someone suffering from mental illness. Y’all are clearly jealous and catty. And it’s depressing that a group of mothers would be so ignorant and cruel. You should be ashamed of yourselves.”
“I never once stated that you were in any way prevented from spewing such word vomit. Rather, I take issue with your assessment that a mother who suffers from postpartum depression is thus unfit to be a parent. That is ignorant. And I won’t waste any more of my time on this uneducated nonsense. And I’m not even a Dooce fan. Rather an advocate for the thousands of women affected by various forms of postpartum depression.”
“I shouldn’t even be leaving a comment, but wow. Nothing renegade about calling someone a self-righteous bitch.”
“I get that you are trying to be a renegade by ripping on someone who has tons of money and fame but it misses the mark. It comes off as crazy angry, sad and too easy –there are plenty of ways to write a counter post to Dooce without calling her a bitch over and over again, or making fun of her Prozac use. It just takes more skill. No need to post a reply.”
“I love this site but I also love Dooce. I think if I were in her position I would have done the same thing in order to get my machine fixed and I think you would have done the same. I did think it was bullshit that she has a washing machine fund when she is pulling in $50K a month. Can you explain why you hate her if it is not jealousy?”
“Pathetic and bitter. Get over it.”
“It all comes across as a bit bitter and desperate to me….but I guess one shouldn’t be surprised that a site where a mother would write such things about her three male children would be a site where nothing worthy can be found. Perhaps you should work at your unfounded anger and resentment towards strangers and at being a better mother. If you have to wonder why your boys aren’t upstanding citizens, perhaps you should take a look in the mirror at who raised them. Children only know what they are taught and their parents are their #1 models.”
“You guys are awful. Not funny in the least.”
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Love from Poop on Peeps comments:
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“Please share with us what Heather’s genius new creation ‘Monetizing The Hate’ has done to your out of control insecurity. The joke is now officially on you!” [ Who's laughing now? ~The Renegade Moms ]
“Hey morons, Leta probably picked out her own outfit. Kids do at that age–they are very opinionated about their clothes and rarely “match.” Kudos to her mom for letting her wear what she wants. Sorry, you’re going to have to harp on one of the other thousand things you hate about Dooce or anyone else for that matter. Vultures.”
“I stopped reading after comment number two, but you people have NO IDEA what Heather did for my family. You act like its a made up story that you get to talk about and criticize. The problem is, you have NO IDEA who Heather Armstrong is, and you really have no idea how much she has changed my life. my babies life, my parents, my sister, her husband and his family’s life…You have NO right to say and do the things you do every single day, to a complete stranger…..Who spends most of her time trying to help the people in her life who really need it. Take a step back, realize the hate you are putting out into the world. For NO reason at all….I am with Heather daily, and all she does is her best… So BACK THE F… OFF!!!!!!! From a very upset and sad best friend…..!!! “
“Before today I had never seen this site, Heather didn’t tell me about it to protect me. And now I know why…If you spent half the time on yourself and making yourself a better person as you do hating a perfect stranger…I really think you could be living a happier and healthier life… Just a suggestion…But good luck with what your doing because Hate NEVER wins..Sorry, it just doesn’t !!!!!!” [ But it pays! ~The Renegade Moms ]
“There has been nothing wrong with Heather’s posts lately. The love is practically pouring out of her. For both Marlo and Leta. And Jon, actually. I don’t see her bashing Leta. Yes, she’s comparing them, most mothers compare their children as babies. The love that Heather has both her children and her husband is palpable.”
“To blame a woman’s postpartum depression for behavior their child exhibits is ridiculous, and I think that Dooce’s honesty about her struggles with postpartum depression have helped many women. The reason any type of mental illness is such a struggle for people is because of the shame our society attaches to these disorders. That will only change when more people open up and are honest about their struggles. I applaud her honesty and I hope that you never have to deal with any sort of “damage”(as you define it) to your children.”
“I think it’s great that Heather gets so much press. If we’re all honest with ourselves, we’d admit that she’s the reason ‘mommy blogging’ got so big. There is always a pioneer in every profession, and she’s ours. If main-stream media wasn’t after her and big time advertisers weren’t after her, then none of them would be after us. I know people hate to admit it, but she was first. If she wasn’t here, neither would you…”
“How dare you blame someone with a mental illness? Maybe Heather’s PPD did have an adverse affect on Leta, but that is most CERTAINLY not her fault. No one asks for such horrible thoughts and feelings that PPD can bring on, and Heather was brave enough to not only seek help, but share with others so that they might seek help as well. That’s honorable, not something to be made fun of. If ONE READER of this blog sees how you bash this illness and finds enough shame to keep it secret? You should be forever disgusted with yourself.And by the way, Heather is breastfeeding. Did any of you mommy geniuses ever think that maybe that’s why she takes Marlo to work and Leta stays with grandma? Have you tried to work, watch a 5-year old and breastfeed a baby at the same time? I didn’t much think so. I think it’s rather nice that the Armstrong’s have a family in place that is loving and willing to help them.”
“…you’re fooling yourself if you think other women paved the way first, because they didn’t. Sure there were some out there, but she brought it to a new level. She was the forerunner for the mommy blogging sphere. It’s why she was chosen as the keynote speaker nearly four years ago at SXSW. Not the other women you speak of. She was also one of the first to make real money at it as well. You only have this blog b/c of her. If anything, b/c you write about her so much. If she wasn’t so popular, you wouldn’t have an audience. You hardly write about yourself, your family or kids, and when you do it’s hard to care b/c you keep your identity so ’secret’. Would you have an audience if you wrote about your life? Would you be making money? You certainly seem to be enjoying the advertising bonuses that comes with ‘mommy blogging’ about someone else life.”
“For those that complain about Dooce, isn’t it really that you’re just jealous because no one cares what you write about? No one pays you? Sure sounds that way…”
“…come on, it’s so weak that you won’t show yourself. I might respect your opinion if you were honest. But at least the other bloggers you hate have the guts to be honest about who they are. It’s obvious that you and violent acres don’t have the guts to speak your mind in a real way. Anyone can hide behind a computer and throw stones.And the lame excuse that you’re ‘frightened for your safety.’ You don’t think Dooce should be worried? She has over one million people following her on twitter! I’ve compared your numbers to hers on [spam deleted] It’s not even close, you barely make the chart! I think she has a little more reason to believe someone might harm her, not you.”
“CL–What’s disgusting is *your* interpretation of Dooce’s story. You’re the one who thinks these things of Leta and Dooce. Not Dooce. Most readers of Dooce get the beauty and the complications of honestly telling the stories of motherhood. Most of us find hope and encouragement and see Dooce’s love for Leta in a way that you can’t. We see the beauty. You and your readership does not. You see ugliness where we do not. I find your blog to be obsessive, pathetic, and puzzling.”
“Wow. I’ve read dooce for a while now, and out of idle curiosity from her latest entry found this pool of insanity. I really wish I hadn’t; I have little faith in humanity and I don’t need further proof that you’re all bunch of nutbars. Wow. Just wow. So fucking creepy. (I’m guessing you won’t let this hit your comments but at least you will have read it. Get a life.)”
“CL you are nothing but a frustrated jealous hag with your pathetic attempt to gain an audience. Write on, with your defective grammar and bad spelling, dear. And every second word underlined, ha ha, your weak endeavour to get some advertising revenue. Dooce bashing is so, so last year. Think up another subject for your excuse of a blog. Maybe laxatives, to release all that shit you have bottled up in you.”
“Well, after just reading dooce today I have to say that if you are complaining about her reacting re her washing machine, y’all are desperately in need of getting a life.”
“let’s congratulate her for what she [Dooce] did do. She got a sorely- needed washer and dryer to a women’s shelter. Who really cares what her motives were? As Gloria Steinem said, while accepting Playboy’s check for NOW, “There’s nothing wrong with dirty money when it does some good.”And I do bet when one of us next buys a Maytag, we’re going to get much better customer service…”
“Wait, what? She’s an “entitled, annoying, disgusting pig” because she wanted her washer fixed. Please, tell me with 100% honesty what you would do if a washer that you spent $1300 never worked? Ever. And you had a newborn that poops and pukes on countless onesies and your washer doesn’t work for 2 months? Would you just sit there and do nothing? If your answer to that question is yes, then I’m calling you a fucking liar. You would do the same thing and have the same rants with your friends. Granted you don’t have an audience of 1,000,000+ people, but come the fuck on. Dooce’s readers are ADULTS. They can make their own decisions on whether or not they want to buy a Maytag or not. They should be smart enough to know that Dooce’s experience was probably not common. I don’t know the commonality of it because I don’t buy Maytag to begin with. This is along the same lines as you people trying to blame people like Ree for America being full of a bunch of fat asses. BULL.SHIT.*”
“The readers/commenters here seem to think they’ve got it all figured out and that everyone is just a little sheep willing to blindly follow the directions of any influential person. Please. Granted, there are probably quite a few people who won’t buy something because Dooce said not to, or they will stuff their faces full of lard because Ree said to, but they’re stupid to begin with if they can’t make their own decisions. I happen to own a $1,300 washer and an $1,100 dryer (Samsung, not Maytag) and you better believe I would raise fucking hell if it crapped out on me before I even really got to use it. Yes, it’s a lot of money to drop on a washer and dryer, but since I did drop that amount of money–call me crazy–but I expect them to work. I know, I know. How dare I.”
“I can’t believe how bitter and jealous most of you are! A whole blog dedicated to ripping into people who are open about their lives while you hide behind a facade. Heaven forbid anyone criticise you! Hopefully your children (or any of your braying followers) won’t end up like you to perpetuate this cycle of hating anyone who does better than you. “You earn more therefore I can hate you!”…whaat?!”
“I came about this blog because the writer ADVERTISED the link on Dooce.com, therefore perusing the massive readership for her own little ad campaign.And you know, had I found an intelligent critique (such as in the sundry..) I might have been a little more impressed. I love the fact that the writer of this blog can’t write nearly as eloquently as the blog she criticises, when the excellent writing on Dooce is exactly the reason why she is so popular.”
“There is a huge audience of us out there who don’t care about “mommyblogging” who still follow Dooce because she writes good, funny blog posts that are about life, therefore relevant to anyone of us.”
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Love from Bonnie Hunt Show comments:
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“I love your guest Heather Armstrong. I personally have 10 years experience breast feeding my five children. Finally, a mother tells the truth. Breast feeding DOES hurt for the first few weeks.Heather was funny and a breath of fresh air.The outright hate for Heather Armstrong turns my stomach. You met her please set the record straight.Hate hurts everyone…….J 
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“I didn’t think Heather was awful like many commenters have stated (btw, there is a group of haters who follow a couple of anti-dooce blogs…they seem to be posting a lot over here) … she is making a great living with her website, and who can blame her for that?”
“DOOCE needs her own reality show! Seriously, she is way more entertaining that those boring sisters.”
“Heather Armstrong’s humor was the ONLY thing saving that segment. She was honest and witty making both Kardashian sisters seem boring. Which they are. YAY DOOCE.”
“I am so glad there are so many moms here that had such a fantastic experience with breastfeeding but the truth is it is hard and painful for lots of women. I happily nursed three children, two of them for more than 2 years but you know what? It isn’t always easy and sometimes it does hurt even when you’re doing everything right. Lying about this very real truth isn’t doing anyone any favors. What should Heather Armstrong have done? Lied and said it was like a wonderful herd of baby Unicorns gently nuzzling you with their fairy wings? When you lie to women about breastfeeding and the fact that sometimes it sucks, is painful and takes a long time to get right all you do is make it more likely that they’ll quit at the first twinge of discomfort. Brava for the mothers out there that don’t lie about it and are willing to pretend that motherhood isn’t always filled with puppies and roses. If it weren’t for my own mommy friend who were honest with me from the get go I would have felt like a terrible failure.”
“I ONLY watched your show today, because Heather “Dooce” Armstrong was going to be on. Those who thought she was “horrible” really don’t get her humor.MOTHERING IS NOT EASY!!!! Just because breast feeding didn’t hurt when you feed all seven of your kids, doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt for all mothers! I am GLAD she was honest and didn’t try and sugar coat it.”
“Seriously, you should have her on more often. Then maybe her million plus TWITTER followers will follow your show. Love, A-”
“Your Mommy blogger was a classy as a trucker and the mouth of a sailor.
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“The only reason I watched was to see DOOCE and she was adorable as usual! Her humor is strictly for those who “get life”….who can laugh at the absurd. I loved it.”
“Bonnie: Can you PLEASE post more video of today’s show with Heather Armstrong? DOOCE fans on the East Coast didn’t see it…”
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I think we need more ‘reality’ based information given to new moms and moms to be and not have it all sugar coated because it’s not always like that.
Also, if you’ve never read Dooce’s blog nor her (very well written) book, you really won’t get her sarcasm or personality at all.
Oh, and breastfed poop does smell like buttered popcorn ”
“I love Dooce, a fellow mom blogger! A great lady!”
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