The Salt Lake Tribune
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Gain = pain for Dooce

Incredibly popular SLC-based blogger "Dooce" (Heather Armstrong) tells the Wall Street Journal that her popular mommy site, on which she shares the intimate details of her life, has drawn enough hate mail to send her to a therapist.

Dooce.com, of course, has brought her a ton of money, too, with its posts about her daughter, dog and feminine plumbing. Her husband quit his job and now just handles the site's advertising.

ViolentAcres.com, posted a parody of a letter from Armstrong to her daughter Leta, saying:

Since your father and I started exploiting you for cash, neither one of us has had to work a real job for a few months now. Score!
That and other nasty posts have driven Armstrong to a shrink:
"The hate mail will invariably happen, and when it does your entire world will crumble around your ears," she says. In one example, she says a person she thought was a friend posted a comment saying she "wanted to punch me in the face because she hated me so much."
To cope, she prints out the attack emails, lays them in the driveway and drives her car over them. "It's made my life a thousand percent better."

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