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If you just went on Mallory's descriptions of her pre-transition appearance you'd think she looked like Quasimodo. She needs to realize we can all see the old photographs of her where she looks like an attractive woman.
Grace Lavery / Joseph Lavery & Daniel M. Lavery / Mallory Ortberg - "Straight with extra steps" couple trooning out to avoid "dwindling into mere heterosexuality"
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At first I was, like, "OK, he needs the help of native Englishmen to navigate their weird little postal service, understandable."
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"Wait a minute! He IS a native Englishman!" Is post office sex code for something? Or is he just this useless?
Well! He claims the U.S. government implausibly lost his passport! Just as implausibly, found it again, seconds after posting!
Lesbian Visibility Day! No, no, Joe is not a lesbian himself, that is a bit too limiting for our Oscar Blande man-about-town image, but he certainly knows lesbians, certainly pretends to fuck them. But that's about enough of that--remember, on Lesbian Visibility Day, that the people we really need to focus on is him, him, him! The greatest victim of all!
Oh, and he's been posting fanart.
An improvement over the abomination hanging over his bed.
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From Joe's Instagram stories, a true story that definitely happened:
He says the meds he needed was Lexapro.
He's flying back to CA to "finish the semester" this week, which means he was out of the country for more than 25% of it, and probably in NY for even more. I wonder how many class sessions he actually taught in person.
For all his inappropriateness (blowjob poem, Bunkersluts, etc), Joe is a tenured professor and has done nothing that we know of to endanger his job or status at Berkeley. He's not getting fired. But I can't imagine his bosses are happy about this?! He could have been present for his students if he's been willing to delay hisvacation book tour for just one month, but he wouldn't even do that.
Autism time. Here's Berkeley's academic calendar:
Joe's UK trip: March 17 - April 26 or 27
Assuming he really does make it home today as announced, his UK trip was six weeks long. One of those weeks fell over Berkeley's Spring Break, so he missed five instructional weeks while he was in the UK. There are a total of fourteen instructional weeks in the semester at Berkeley. 5/14 = he wasn't even in the US for 35.7% of the instructional weeks of the semester. And we don't even know how many more weeks he was in NYC instead of California.
He says the meds he needed was Lexapro.
He's flying back to CA to "finish the semester" this week, which means he was out of the country for more than 25% of it, and probably in NY for even more. I wonder how many class sessions he actually taught in person.
For all his inappropriateness (blowjob poem, Bunkersluts, etc), Joe is a tenured professor and has done nothing that we know of to endanger his job or status at Berkeley. He's not getting fired. But I can't imagine his bosses are happy about this?! He could have been present for his students if he's been willing to delay his
Autism time. Here's Berkeley's academic calendar:
Joe's UK trip: March 17 - April 26 or 27
Assuming he really does make it home today as announced, his UK trip was six weeks long. One of those weeks fell over Berkeley's Spring Break, so he missed five instructional weeks while he was in the UK. There are a total of fourteen instructional weeks in the semester at Berkeley. 5/14 = he wasn't even in the US for 35.7% of the instructional weeks of the semester. And we don't even know how many more weeks he was in NYC instead of California.
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Thank you, California taxpayers, for funding this clown’s trans evangelistic campaign—- in the UK.
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It is a fucking FEDERAL CRIME that whoever made that middle one made him look vaguely like a very elderly Jean Stapleton.
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He's literally commissioning multiple portraits of himself at the same time. We're approaching levels of narcissism I didn't know were possible.
Also, the "they found it!" right after posting the other message is very sus. I'm thinking when he said it was "lost," some UK friend from his former life with actual ties to the post office or something offered to give him extra help and he suddenly "found" it so that they didn't follow up. Which means he was trying to stay on TERF Island longer, avoiding the wife and dogs, but got stymied by overly-helpful Englishmen.
I wonder if we're about to get a "Joe's British lover" saga, because this man doesn't travel without having some casual sex lined up. He planned a trip, sent Mallory home, and then tried to extend his stay. Who's making him regret going back to Berkeley?
Also, the "they found it!" right after posting the other message is very sus. I'm thinking when he said it was "lost," some UK friend from his former life with actual ties to the post office or something offered to give him extra help and he suddenly "found" it so that they didn't follow up. Which means he was trying to stay on TERF Island longer, avoiding the wife and dogs, but got stymied by overly-helpful Englishmen.
I wonder if we're about to get a "Joe's British lover" saga, because this man doesn't travel without having some casual sex lined up. He planned a trip, sent Mallory home, and then tried to extend his stay. Who's making him regret going back to Berkeley?
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Hrmph, wonder if he was actually frogmarched out of the gents for doing something Pervy (e.g. looking over at other men’s cocks in the urinal) and is trying to spin it as he looked like a true and honest woman.? Sounds like his style
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He's probably got some online component to his courses, making them "hybrid" or "reduced seating." It probably isn't just total absence. Mind you, a lot of grifting does go on under the banner of online education. I suspect Joe enjoys teaching, though. It can be a big ego boost. The most academically inclined students have a strong tendency to look up to the teacher, even get crushes.
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Joe's classes were not advertised as "hybrid."
It also seems like he cancels class a lot:
However, I didn't mean to imply that he cancels class every time he's out of town. He definitely teaches over Zoom. My critique is that the quality of instruction is vastly reduced over Zoom, and it's a dereliction of Joe's responsibility to his students to move a class onto Zoom just so he can go twiddle his flaccid cock in Blighty for six weeks.
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I went to a small private collage turned university in the midwest. IDK about this cOvId shit, but where I went, if the teacher wasn't there, there just wasn't any class.
I had an Econ. prof who caught pneumonia. He was an older guy and sat on the local school board for years, thus increasing his chances of no recovery. He was gone for roughly 80% of the semester. Know what they did?
They just didn't have our class. No assignments. No sub. No transfer. The only other two sections were taught by a prof with a wildly different pedagogy (used math and algorithms to teach while ours mainly lectured and used essay questions).
Many of us bitched to the dean and provost. We paid. We attended class when he was there, but we had ZERO word, or idea, if we'd have a final...or how he planned to figure our grades or pass us. It's damn near impossible at even the biggest state university systems to get, and pass, the classes you NEED, on time, for academic progress and graduation without being at a tiny traditional private (non-profit) college.
I suspect Berkely may use subs for in person teaching like the community colleges tend to do. But if it's anything like my experience years and years ago...the students ought to march to the dean (or the media if they get no remedy) and DEMAND an acceptable solution. Once again...how in the farm fresh FUCK is Lavatory allowed to keep shirking the basic bitch aspects of his jerb while flouncing around like a garden variety dive bar last call pervert? A REAL university wouldn't stand for even a sliver of this behavior.
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LOL are you seriously claiming Berkeley isn’t a REAL university because it’s not like the podunk cow town college you attended decades ago?
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His style sounds like someone gave him the stinkeye in the bathroom and he's embellishing it on Instagram out of disappointment over the fact that nobody cares about him not even on TERF Island.
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Lexapro is a slow-release SSRI, so missing a day or two would probably not set Joe too far back. I'm not perfect enough to say I've never miscalculated the remaining days on my prescription, but going overseas for a month would definitely make me call my doctor to get a refill before I went!
Any of my professors who missed this much class time did so because they broke their back and had to cancel the entire semester. I know getting tenure is usually an excuse not to teach as much, but Joe is just slacking off.
That frogmarching story Never. Happened.
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Exactly. This may have been the US embassy, but surely everyone is too British to “frogmarch” (not side eye, not even question) a scruffy, dishevelled, be-stubbled bloke out of the men’s bathroom.
This is a standard AGP validation fantasy about being so surprised to be treated badly as a female. Similar to the troons who love to share anecdotes about being groped in bars and catcalled in the street.
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Powerlevel warning:
If you haven’t already guessed by my posts in this thread, I am an instructor in higher ed. And my mother, whom I am the primary caregiver for, is dying.
I took a week off this semester to get her paperwork in order, talk to her doctors, establish her home care, and spend some time with her while she was still lucid. I was given the option to take another week, but my colleagues would have had to sub for me with no extra pay for their trouble, which, understandably, none of them were willing to do. (I was also given the option to teach on Zoom, but since my classes are in-person, I don’t want to use that option unless I have no other choice.)
A week was, realistically, all the time I was able to take. I have the option of taking FMLA, but that is up to three months, once a year, with no pay. That’s all the leave both the federal government and my place of employment allow. I don’t have the option of going on sabbatical, as that has an entire application and approval process that has to be done well in advance. So I am stuck working during the day while my sibling takes care of mom, and then I go in for the night shift to give sibling some time off after I’m done with work for the day. Everyone says they feel sorry for me, but there’s no real help or options.
You see, while my job may be “elite“ on paper, I am still very much a member of the working class. I can’t just leave my job without my pay, even though I have a terminally ill family member. My job will only accommodate me so much. And my students, who honestly have been fantastic about the whole thing, still paid for a somewhat decent education and I owe it to them not to fuck up too badly.
So, believe me when I say that I have no idea how Joe has managed to get six weeks away from his job in the middle of the semester without going on something like FMLA or medical leave. That’s not how things usually work. Those of us in education put things off — vacations, surgeries, even weddings and pregnancies — until the summer, or until we can manage to swing more time off. It’s not unusual to see colleagues walking around with crutches during the summer months because they put off a long-awaited surgery so that they could have time to recover without having to take limited sick time. And forget about vacation time — we don’t have it.
So, please believe me when I say I don’t know what deal Joe managed to work out with Berkeley that has allowed him to be a “part-time professor” (that’s…not a thing) while also doing a book tour in a completely different country where he was stranded a few extra days, after being sick with covid in the fall and taking sabbatical the year before. He might be getting up early to teach on Zoom. I don’t know when he’s had the time to grade papers or answer the many, many student emails we normally get, as Gen Z is deeply needy. But what he is doing — or not doing — is not at all representative of the typical life of a higher ed instructor.
If you haven’t already guessed by my posts in this thread, I am an instructor in higher ed. And my mother, whom I am the primary caregiver for, is dying.
I took a week off this semester to get her paperwork in order, talk to her doctors, establish her home care, and spend some time with her while she was still lucid. I was given the option to take another week, but my colleagues would have had to sub for me with no extra pay for their trouble, which, understandably, none of them were willing to do. (I was also given the option to teach on Zoom, but since my classes are in-person, I don’t want to use that option unless I have no other choice.)
A week was, realistically, all the time I was able to take. I have the option of taking FMLA, but that is up to three months, once a year, with no pay. That’s all the leave both the federal government and my place of employment allow. I don’t have the option of going on sabbatical, as that has an entire application and approval process that has to be done well in advance. So I am stuck working during the day while my sibling takes care of mom, and then I go in for the night shift to give sibling some time off after I’m done with work for the day. Everyone says they feel sorry for me, but there’s no real help or options.
You see, while my job may be “elite“ on paper, I am still very much a member of the working class. I can’t just leave my job without my pay, even though I have a terminally ill family member. My job will only accommodate me so much. And my students, who honestly have been fantastic about the whole thing, still paid for a somewhat decent education and I owe it to them not to fuck up too badly.
So, believe me when I say that I have no idea how Joe has managed to get six weeks away from his job in the middle of the semester without going on something like FMLA or medical leave. That’s not how things usually work. Those of us in education put things off — vacations, surgeries, even weddings and pregnancies — until the summer, or until we can manage to swing more time off. It’s not unusual to see colleagues walking around with crutches during the summer months because they put off a long-awaited surgery so that they could have time to recover without having to take limited sick time. And forget about vacation time — we don’t have it.
So, please believe me when I say I don’t know what deal Joe managed to work out with Berkeley that has allowed him to be a “part-time professor” (that’s…not a thing) while also doing a book tour in a completely different country where he was stranded a few extra days, after being sick with covid in the fall and taking sabbatical the year before. He might be getting up early to teach on Zoom. I don’t know when he’s had the time to grade papers or answer the many, many student emails we normally get, as Gen Z is deeply needy. But what he is doing — or not doing — is not at all representative of the typical life of a higher ed instructor.
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Gosh, my full sympathies for what is happening with your mother, I went through the same thing a few years ago. Another family member stepped in to do primary caregiving because they had more medical experience, but the whole thing exhausted us and we are only rebuilding family relationships after it all.
On Joe - I deeply suspect that he has been perhaps "asked" to stay away, that there's something going on behind the scenes. At my work people will suddenly take EXTENDED LEAVE and it's usually because something with reputational damage to the company is being investigated - HR internally, or an external police matter that can bleed into the company.
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I mentioned this before but in the case of Rhys it was an obvious academic freeze out where you let the person go on "sabbatical" and stop teaching classes as part of one of the few ways you have to drive a tenured professor out of the picture. I don't know enough about Lavery's situation at Berkeley as Rhys would post about his to tell whether or not the same thing is happening to him but it's certainly plausible to me. Being able to see his course evaluations would be illuminating. For some reason though I somewhat perceive him as potentially too much of a pussy to actually become a department terror like Rhys.
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And this is a guy who cannot play "victim" because the narcissism won't allow him to be a person who can be victimised.
I think this could be a reason he couldn't get in on the debates. A big weapon in the troon argument is the "oh poor me, so marginalized, so terrorized, can't be a nasty male as I am so uwu soft" and Joe has never - as far as I've seen - used that as an offensive tactic. He is in his mind so cool and clever he'd never be in a situation where he's actually a victim, even the "frogmarching out of the mens" is a validation of his fake femininity.
I think this could be a reason he couldn't get in on the debates. A big weapon in the troon argument is the "oh poor me, so marginalized, so terrorized, can't be a nasty male as I am so uwu soft" and Joe has never - as far as I've seen - used that as an offensive tactic. He is in his mind so cool and clever he'd never be in a situation where he's actually a victim, even the "frogmarching out of the mens" is a validation of his fake femininity.
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Narcissists often tend to be successful.
They can manipulate the people around them and use their delusional confidence to excel.
It really sucks.
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Let's be real: a lot of schools since covid have been pretty flexible on attendance, and Joe managing to get permission to teach all his stuff online, or get a TA cover it, is not implausible.