{"id":1932069,"date":"2023-05-16T22:26:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T02:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-queen-of-mommy-bloggers-left-us-a-cautionary-tale-about-the-need-for-community\/"},"modified":"2023-05-16T22:33:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T02:33:04","slug":"the-queen-of-mommy-bloggers-left-us-a-cautionary-tale-about-the-need-for-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-queen-of-mommy-bloggers-left-us-a-cautionary-tale-about-the-need-for-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Mommy blogger queen&#8217;s story warns us about the importance of community."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-queen-of-mommy-bloggers-left-us-a-cautionary-tale-about-the-need-for-community%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1932069&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Remembering Dooce: A Critical Assessment of Her Legacy<\/h2>\n<h3>The Life and Death of Heather Armstrong<\/h3>\n<p>Last week, Heather Armstrong, known to most by the internet handle \u201cDooce,\u201d passed away. Her fame had dimmed somewhat in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-teacher-sues-school-board-after-being-fired-he-refused-to-compromise-on-trans-pronouns\/\" title=\"Flashback: Teacher Sues School Board After Being Fired \u2013 He Refused To Compromise on Trans Pronouns\">recent years<\/a>, but she was once an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cop-who-mocked-lebron-james-snags-book-deal-heads-back-to-work\/\" title=\"Cop Who Mocked LeBron James Snags Book Deal, Heads Back To Work\">internet sensation<\/a> that The New York Times dubbed \u201cQueen of the Mommy Bloggers,\u201d and, upon her death, they have proclaimed her \u201cthe original influencer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But as a public figure and writer, Armstrong was resolutely snarky and unflinching even when her targets didn\u2019t deserve what she had done to them, so forgive me if I offer my own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-woman-king-falsely-paints-female-warrior-slave-traders-as-abolitionists-even-leftist-critics-admit\/\" title=\"\u2018The Woman King\u2019 Falsely Paints Female Warrior Slave Traders As Abolitionists, Even Leftist Critics Admit\">critical assessment<\/a> of her legacy.<\/p>\n<h3>Her Writing and Personal Obsessions<\/h3>\n<p>Armstrong was naturally quite public about her struggles with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/months-after-closing-beaches-newsom-smugly-suggests-people-hit-the-sand-for-their-mental-health\/\" title=\"Months After Closing Beaches, Newsom Smugly Suggests People Hit the Sand for Their Mental Health\">mental health<\/a>. Much of her writing as a \u201cmommy blogger\u201d was just observational and if you like \u201ctopics such as breast milk pumps, golf cart rides with Norah Jones, and the one guy I dated who talked like Elmo during sex,\u201d her blog was the sort of thing you will like. But she also had personal obsessions that defined her.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong was raised in a Mormon family in Utah and attended Brigham Young University before leaving the church. Her outspokenness here caught my attention because I\u2019m also an ex-Mormon. Which is not to say that I related much to what she had to say about leaving the church, it\u2019s just more that I\u2019m acutely sensitive to the performative bitterness that so many other ex-Mormons indulge in.<\/p>\n<h3>Her Legacy and Feminism<\/h3>\n<p>Armstrong tempered her strident tendencies by throwing herself into being a wife and mother. However, she was also filling that community void with progressive politics and a hunger for public affirmation. Speaking as someone who is more familiar with life as a public figure than I would like to be, without healthy countervailing forces in your private life, things can get overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed to me that the author of a book titled Things I Learned About My Dad (in Therapy) maybe didn\u2019t always have a handle on balancing public and private.<\/p>\n<p>But despite these silly pronouncements, what separated Dooce from so many similar people in her position, be they confessional bloggers or angry former church members, were the undercurrents of genuine self-awareness that slipped out.<\/p>\n<h3>Her Struggles with Mental Health<\/h3>\n<p>Her depression issues were so severe that she at one point voluntarily submitted herself to dangerous experimental treatments that repeatedly induced \u201cbrain death\u201d in a desperate attempt to escape the anguish. To the extent the pain was beyond her control, the faith I eventually found that she so publicly struggled with tells me \u201cif He causes grief, Then He will have compassion according to His abundant loving kindness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll miss you, Dooce.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mark Hemingway is the Book Editor at The Federalist, and was formerly a senior writer at The Weekly Standard. Follow him on Twitter at @heminator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Armstrong, also known as &#8220;Dooce,&#8221; passed away last week. 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