I have to be honest I don’t buy her explanation. I do find it distasteful, in the way that I find most too-personal blogs distasteful. The problem with blogging about your children – especially young children – is that the kids don’t get to choose whether or not they want the intimate details of their lives exposed to strangers on the internet. I guess I wouldn’t mind posting general, sanitized info about my kid, but there is a point where it crosses into the realm of weird to me.

The reality is that Dooce is not doing this for wholly cathartic or altruistic means – she is attempting to build a careeer out of it. And like anyone who writes a tell-all book about their own family, she risks some pretty major issues from her subjects.