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Heater, Mother of Lance
Heather B. Armstrong
Hi. I’m Heather B. Armstrong, and this used to be called mommy blogging. But then they started calling it Influencer Marketing: hashtag ad, hashtag sponsored, hashtag you know you want me to slap your product on my kid and exploit her for millions and millions of dollars. That’s how this shit works. Now? Well… sit back, buckle up, and enjoy the ride.
RazDreams
2005/03/08 at 8:17 pm1) i never supported matt jackson directly or said directly that dooce shouldn’t post his e-mail address.
2) i am not matt. i drink wine. he doesn’t.
3) i am not on a soapbox (skerid of heights), and i am funny, and i like mrs. strizz and just about every other person i meet.
4) stop being mean to people when they have a difference of opinion from the rest of you all. i’m not policing. i’m trying to ask you to be nicer sometimes when dooce won’t. unbecoming? maybe. but others *do* agree with me. they’re just too scared to post anything most of the time, lest they get the same treatment.
5) sorry for offending anyone. back to the wine (whine?).
Andrea in Canada
2005/03/08 at 8:13 pmso she picked out that blonde bimbo face/hair also? it takes all kinds…funny world, funny world.
copy_kitty
2005/03/08 at 8:13 pm“belly shots”?!
What did I miss?!
WinInc
2005/03/08 at 8:03 pmAndrea in Canada.. isn’t it tho!! Her face pics apparently aren’t hers either (truly SHOCKING I know) It just reaffirms my belief that it takes all kinds to make the world.
jenny
2005/03/08 at 7:59 pmmaybe it’s time for a little joke…
(dedicated to Leta’s grandmommie, too!)
why does the Avon lady walk so slow?
jenny
2005/03/08 at 8:02 pmBECAUSE HER LIPS STICK!
ok, dirty and dumb.
but i think it’s funny!
holly
2005/03/08 at 7:59 pmToo bad Dooce did not publish the headers along with E-mail address.
It would be interesting to see if she has compared his IP to the people posting here. Perhaps he has posted in another name, scolding her for posting poor poor matt’s email address (forgive me if all the people who posted such comments are known regulars, I don’t read the comments often enough to know who is who – this post brought me out of lurkdom). Maybe he has begged for mercy for matt (a.k.a. himself).
He had to have assumed she would publish the email or excerpts of it, I am sure he returned to check it out.
Kim
2005/03/08 at 7:58 pmWould it be wrong to have Mr. Jackson place a personal ad? Wrong, right? We do have some boundries.
Don’t we? :o)
Andrea in Canada
2005/03/08 at 7:57 pmOh my God. Miss Mama makes this mama sick to her stomache. How creepy is that?
WinInc
2005/03/08 at 7:57 pmyeah.. this is the button I keep hitting 😉
Alaska Danielle
2005/03/08 at 7:57 pmI’m really not bothered by posting the dude’s email address. It’s Heather’s blog, she made the repercussions clear in her, uh, mission statement type thing.
What doesn’t sit well with me is getting other bloggers to gang up on this guy via their comments. There’s a difference between solidarity and mob mentality. What he wrote may have been *offensive* to other mothers who blog, or shit women in general, but it was *addressed* to Heather. Getting five other people involved just seemed, dare I say it, childish. Reading the responses kind of made my stomach hurt a little.
cathi
2005/03/08 at 7:55 pmAndrea – I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s mention of this on Blurbomat sometime soon.
Henryk_
2005/03/08 at 7:50 pmWinInc…..try the F5 button to refresh
picklefork
2005/03/08 at 7:53 pmOoooh try all the buttons and get
cathi
2005/03/08 at 7:54 pmEver had a musical moment where you wanted to burst into song? Here’s mine:
I smell pretty, oh so pretty
And I shaved my armpits bare!
My legs are squeaky,
And I trimmed my monkey while I was there.
LalalalalaLAlalalaLA
WinInc
2005/03/08 at 7:46 pmMy new favourite button is refresh.. always something new here
WinInc
2005/03/08 at 7:43 pmWAIT!! and if you haven’t checked out that chicks page with “her” belly shots.. Do it! Soooo creappy?! Awh I love drama.
Andrea in Canada
2005/03/08 at 7:45 pmafter reading the emails…I think Heather had every right. It’s her website. She was pissed but used humour to tackle the problem which was cool. I am now just wondering how Jon would have dealt with it….Jon?
WinInc
2005/03/08 at 7:40 pmI wonder when we will see Matt’s Website about how he got fired for postings on a website… I mean.. he made demands and didn’t get what he wanted.. I wouldn’t go so far as to say he was Dooced.. to nice of a term, I would say he was De-Weenied. Striped of the balls he shined up so brassily to display to Dooce.
pinky
2005/03/08 at 7:39 pmIt would certainly be a lovely feather in the Dooce cap, and make an even BETTER Associated Press newstory, AND give Dan Rather a heck of alot to talk about, if we, as an internet mob, could actually get Matt Jackson dooced.
Heather, I hope your people are ready with your statements–this guy needs to be taken down.
CanadianAmy
2005/03/08 at 7:38 pmOh, Cathi, I have done that myself too many times!
CanadianAmy
2005/03/08 at 7:28 pmGoodnight, Doocesprings,
Two shiny new Ben Wa Balls for each and everyone of you!
(Except MATT. He gets the one that rolled under the couch two years ago after a day of being ‘used’.)
cathi
2005/03/08 at 7:37 pmI can’t believe I’m back. I surfed my other daily blogs and still haven’t taken a shower. Cristin, really, you don’t want to sit too close. I smell.
Just checking in anyway to see what hilarity was sure to ensue when I wasn’t here.
picklefork
2005/03/08 at 7:27 pmBetcha Matt J. is a fairly recent business school graduate, still impressed with his bad self for landing what probably seems like a big important job now. He’s obviously never had a close encounter with HR — dead giveaway for a newbie. In a few years, when he has more experience, he’s going to want to curl into a little ball of red-faced embarrassment just for remembering what he wrote and what a naif he was. If he’s real, and he really works for ATT, he’s definitely going to lose his job. I suspect that’s a lesson he’s never going to forget — unfortunately, he probably won’t learn the right thing from it.
lawbrat
2005/03/08 at 7:25 pmI signed him up for numerous National Organization of Women information….SUCK IT MATT
Cristin
2005/03/08 at 7:22 pmcathi it’s okay. If I weren’t on my way to bed I’d sit by ya
SuMMer
2005/03/08 at 7:25 pmgingirl:that’s a nice though, but people ARE really that callous. I would love more than anything for Matt Jackson’s next boss to be a woman.
Happy International Women’s Day, everyone! (except for the dead monkeys)
Cristin
2005/03/08 at 7:23 pmum but not in the shower, m’kay?
cathi
2005/03/08 at 7:21 pmNow, because I held catching up on my daily Dooce more important than showering today, I go forth into the watery abyss.
Good night, all!
Narcissa
2005/03/08 at 7:18 pmTwo different things. First of all, that is the most beautiful child I have ever laid eyes on.
Second. This Matt character is an ass. I say we gang up on him and flood him with hate mail!!
cathi
2005/03/08 at 7:19 pmHey I’m here at the bottom and I’m all alone. I’m such a dork.
In my frenzy to post earlier, Dooce, I got your “Comment Submission Error” page. The bottom was a little freaky. If I weren’t buzzed, I would have thought to screenshot it for you. Sorry.
yet another Tara
2005/03/08 at 7:15 pmLeta is absolutely gorgeous.
fyds
2005/03/08 at 7:17 pmhmm…. Ryan C. sounds like a farker…
http://www.fark.com
Jason
2005/03/08 at 7:15 pmTo all of those who deride Heather for publishing Matt “Dickless” Jackson’s e-mail address:
I think you are missing one crucial point with your arguments. While normally I would agree that today’s post would be out of line (even if the guy is a complete waste of flesh), the logic of his letter begs for a response like Heather’s. The Dickless One came to the site as a result of Heather being fired for being “obviously immature and foolish to acknowledge that [she] wrote about the company’s dirty laundry or goings on and expected nothing to happen.”
Then he proceeds to go though his diatribe of sludge and sexism.
But one begins to wonder, isn’t he doing the very same thing that he accuses Heather of doing? He wrote to a “public persona” with no thought of how it wold affect his business or his life – – and with comments that weren’t simply off-color but offensive, and may actually become a liability to his company himself. He’s begging to be Dooced tenfold. He’s a hypocrite and an idiot. I for one applaud Heather for showing him the other side of the coin. He deserves whatever he gets.
Too bad he lacks the gonads to “pump out a puppy” when he’s done with this wild ride.
SUCK IT, Matt
2005/03/08 at 7:14 pmI just signed Matt Jackson’s email address up for every ridiculous gimmick advertised in the 30 spam messages I get per day. I hope he enjoys his free daily advertisements on the “LATEST BREAKTHROUGH IN PENIS ENLARGEMENT TECHNOLOGY!”
gingirl
2005/03/08 at 7:13 pmJust a thought….I wonder if Matt’s nasty email was an experiment…to see how many people really read dooce.com and how passionate they are about it? I would prefer to believe that rather than the possibilty that someone is so callous.
fyds
2005/03/08 at 7:13 pmKimberly, I take offense. Did you LOOK at the site??? We weren’t spamming it, per se. It was more, WTF do you think you’re doing passing off someone else’s pictures as your own?
cathi
2005/03/08 at 7:07 pmdammit I forgot my number
as you were
cathi
2005/03/08 at 7:11 pmjust read #604! hugs all around?
cathi
2005/03/08 at 7:06 pmone more thing real quick so i don’t forget
To Amanda from Canada – thanks for your compliment. Yes, the photo store manager sucked. I’m getting the camera from someone else – still the panasonic and not the ::hearing angelic music:: the nikon.
cathi
2005/03/08 at 7:04 pmbtw – I’m at 576 now. If you’ve responded to either of my previous comments, please talk amongst yourselves. I’ll be back presently.
cathi
2005/03/08 at 7:01 pmYeah – so I’ve only gotten so far as comment #560 because my computer crashed on me today and I’m trying to catch up.
Raz. You can amuse me, and I love you for that. But let me mix some metaphors because I’m a lightweight and the wine is kicking in (CHEERS to the ladies! This one’s for you!)… You have a tendency to come here and climb up on a soap box, and the whole comment police thing is really unbecoming. You’ve stated your point, and it was a good one. There should be no witch hunt for Matt Jacksons (or Matt Johnsons, my God – The The’s lead singer would not have done this!). But getting Strizz all worked up and going back and forth has completely taken the focus off of that great point.
Please, for the love of all things holy, stop.
If this has already been addressed since post #560, I apologize, and beg you to continue as you were and forgive me for speaking before being fully aware of the conversation.
Peace out. Word.
Stacey
2005/03/08 at 6:58 pmDooce should sue Purerave!
jenny g
2005/03/08 at 6:58 pmDoes that mean he’s been redooced?
(okay that was pretty bad.)
Is he the undooce?
Perhaps “fuckwad” is a better term.
I’m tempted to see if there is a “fuckwad.com”, but I’m worried that there is, and I’m not gonna wanna see it.
Kristine, that was pretty funny.
Leslie
2005/03/08 at 6:56 pmRemember the last time someone stole her belly pics? Dooce got all “I will sue your ass into the ground, you crazy fuck” and she took them down.
Stacey
2005/03/08 at 6:56 pmSo Heather does know where he works for SURE?
Where did I miss that?
kristine
2005/03/08 at 6:55 pmMATT JACKSON’S TAGLINE FOR HIS BLOG:
Fired for hate-emailing a woman who got fired for her blog.
Yeah, that will look so good!
jenny g
2005/03/08 at 6:54 pmDooce.
You. Are. My. Hero.
Don’t let this one moron cancel out the rest of us – you know, the people WITH BRAINS.
If I knew you, I’d make you a very nice grande cappuccino with microfoam and maybe a touch of hazlenut syrup if you’re into that kind of thing. THAT would cancel the motherfucker out. (and I might have signed him up to receive special offers from j.c. penney. Don’t worry, just click here to remove yourself from the list!! Tee Hee!)
RazDreams
2005/03/08 at 6:53 pm#633 says, “there must be a way to remove someone like that from a position of power. Creative ideas?” here’s an original one: have *dooce* forward his e-mail to his employer directly (since she knows who it is for certain) without shaming him publicly and pushing him deeper into the sick hole that he lives. that’ll definitely shame him more than all the anonymous hate mail he’s sure to be receiving…
Stacey
2005/03/08 at 6:48 pmKimberly, it’s not a website per se.
Plus, anyone who steals belly photos and ultrasound pics deserves it.