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I rather loved the dooce interview on the Today show this Wednesday. Not because it was good. It was awful: Kathie Lee Gifford ought to be ashamed of herself. But Heather Armstrong (dooce) handled Kathie Lee’s stupidity SO elegantly. The woman is a gem, and she is also right: what she’s doing is important, it is something that makes public and visible a huge part of women’s lives that has, up to now, mostly happened in the isolation of the home, in secret, without anyone bearing witness. For the most part, mothering has thus far disappeared into silence. And all Kathie Lee could think of saying was, won’t your daughter resent you for blogging about her? Well, I don’t think Kathie Lee is really one to talk… if her children don’t already resent her for just existing, they will surely resent her for ever having asked that question.