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  • Standing Up for Dooce

    Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 5:31 PM | By Dana Stevens

    In the spirit of Meghan's stated desire that the XX Factor blog remain a site of amicable cacophony, I'm feeling the need to stand up for my girl Dooce. Well, the blogger who goes by that name, Heather Armstrong, is "my girl" only in the sense that, like millions of her readers, I've been following her life online for more than five years now on an almost daily basis. But after reading Susannah Breslin's recent takedown of the "bad mommy" phenomenon, Ann Hulbert's review of a spate of recent confessional parenting memoirs, and a terrific discussion of those same books between our beloved Double X editors and the redoubtable Stephen Metcalf, it strikes me that something obvious is going unsaid... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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