Grace Lavery / Joseph Lavery & Daniel M. Lavery / Mallory Ortberg - "Straight with extra steps" couple trooning out to avoid "dwindling into mere heterosexuality"

[Antinous]

Some old normie couple saved for years to take a cross country train trip, only to end up sharing a dining car with Buffalo Bill and Precious.

 

[White-Kettle Shufflepunk]

Looks like someone melted Musk.

 

[Trianon]

You vs. the guy she tells you not to worry about

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They have given up, hahaha. "Boy(ish)"

Mal's hairline is about as Joe's now, I reckon.

 

[monstrous bubo]

At some point you have to wonder what a label couldn't get Joe to pay thousands of dollars for. This must be that effective altruism I hear so much about.

My theory is that Brand A is surreptitiously enabling Danny and his hawt bitch to wear Brand B’s clothes. Everything they wear looks like shit, so better to steer them away from your clothes to a competitor.

 

[Paul Enwerdhoeven]

My theory is that Brand A is surreptitiously enabling Danny and his hawt bitch to wear Brand B’s clothes. Everything they wear looks like shit, so better to steer them away from your clothes to a competitor.

If I didn't follow Joe and Mallory I would have no idea Gucci made so much tacky shit. Maybe you're on to something....

 

[FarmVille]

You vs. the guy she tells you not to worry about

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[Dr. Butt]

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Joe honestly does look dead; he looks close to death than many men who look far more elderly than he does. His writing doesn't come across as particularly drunk though, so I'm not sure why he looks like a wet shelter alcoholic.

 

[Mayhem]

If Joe is not trying to look like a woman anymore, but rather a pretentious old faggot, he’s succeeding.

 

[Frances Kiwi Farmer]

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Hold up --

Where have I heard that before?

On the "strategic cultivation of boyishness to defuse and deflect unwanted attention" scale, I wonder where wearing a t-shirt that says "boy(ish)" on it ranks.

ETA: Joe's moobs are literally in his armpits. I think may actually be the the worst example of middle-aged MtF tube moob + barrel chest I've seen on here. If Joe didn't have such an irredeemably smug personality, I'd feel bad for him. He clearly is and was terrified of aging and losing his (dubious) boyish charm. Like many an aging twink (not that Joe was actually ever a twink, he's a straight beta male who thinks that's the same thing as being a twink, many such cases on Reddit), he trooned out avoid becoming a gross old man. Unfortunately, the only thing HRT did was help get him to gross-old-manhood faster.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

On the "strategic cultivation of boyishness to defuse and deflect unwanted attention" scale, I wonder where wearing a t-shirt that says "boy(ish)" on it ranks.

Indeed. There are ample examples of female child predators- including a FTM being discussed in the past few pages of the tranny sideshow thread, who worked in a daycare. Mallory may be telling on herself with her fixation.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

My theory is that Brand A is surreptitiously enabling Danny and his hawt bitch to wear Brand B’s clothes. Everything they wear looks like shit, so better to steer them away from your clothes to a competitor.

If I didn't follow Joe and Mallory I would have no idea Gucci made so much tacky shit. Maybe you're on to something....

A Brand Manager somewhere kept seeing Gucci's crap and figured there had to be a way to publicize this relatively cheaply but he could never put two and two together. Then one day he opened the New York Times to a profile about two trans writers with a certain picture...

 

[Trianon]

Indeed. There are ample examples of female child predators- including a FTM being discussed in the past few pages of the tranny sideshow thread, who worked in a daycare. Mallory may be telling on herself with her fixation.

I doubt it's anything like that, more just a general aversion to being seen, a common maladaptive (Mal-adaptive) thought pattern in women. Mal does all the cutesy, widdle-ole-me schtick she accuses her family of weaponizing, but in her case, it's a way to avoid harsh criticism or cancellation. Being Dear Prudence brought a lot of attention, so she had to be more extreme than any of the readers lest she be accused of being too lenient or unwoke or insufficiently intersectional. That intellectual environ probably contributed somewhat to her need to cut her family off completely and totally. Prove your loyalty to the party, yada yada yada.

That boyish stance is also why people in this thread have a hard time criticizing her! It's advantageous to be cute and charming and a bit naive because you are unlikely to get called on anything. Her thing is just probably not pedophilia! It's things like being wealthy and blinkered about working-class problems, which she tries very hard to hide with a rubbery willingness to apologize for any slight thing she's said wrong.

btw, here's proof joe did buy that stupid sweater


Mal wrote about The Train as all non-boyish guys do.

Later that same day, an older man turned to me in the observation car and said, “Do you know what’s going by right now? America’s backyard,” and I welled up a little bit. People don’t say shit like this in rest stops, I tell you.

 

[Potatis Salad]

Ewwww, icky! Kweer icon Joe had to have brunch with a heterosexual couple, and to make it worse, they're breeders.

You can see the discomfort radiating off of him.

Never forget when Joe thought he was going to have to pretend to care about Mallory's nieces and nephews. Nipped that one in the bud, thank god!:


And this has nothing to do with anything, but I scrolled way back in Mal's Instagram. I brought back a few pre-troonery pics from my travels. These are from around 2017:

dat British posture

Mallory is cute, but her perpetual awkward expression says that she's uncomfortable with her own face. As I wrote myself in my very first post about the Laverys back in 2019 (), she looks embarrassed to be alive.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

Ewwww, icky, kweer icon Joe had to have brunch with a heterosexual couple, and to make it worse, they're breeders.
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You can see the discomfort radiating off of him.
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Never forget when Joe thought he was going to have to pretend to care about Mallory's nieces and nephews:
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And this has nothing to do with anything, but I scrolled way back in Mal's Instagram looking for the pic above. Here's a small selection of her and Joe pre-troonery, around 2017:
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dat British posture

Mallory is cute, but that awkward way she twists her lips in every pic tells me she's uncomfortable with her own face.
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And here I thought the last 6-7 years had been rough on me. Damn.

 

[monstrous bubo]

Ewwww, icky! Kweer icon Joe had to have brunch with a heterosexual couple, and to make it worse, they're breeders.
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You can see the discomfort radiating off of him.
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Never forget when Joe thought he was going to have to pretend to care about Mallory's nieces and nephews. Nipped that one in the bud, thank god!:
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And this has nothing to do with anything, but I scrolled way back in Mal's Instagram. I brought back a few pre-troonery pics from my travels. These are from around 2017:
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dat British posture

Mallory is cute, but her perpetual awkward expression says that she's uncomfortable with her own face. As I wrote myself in my very first post about the Laverys back in 2019 (), she looks embarrassed to be alive.
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Those last few photos are poignant. He appears only semi-debauched, and she is cute and healthy. In that brunch photo she looks like the fat retarded uncle who wishes he was trusted to babysit. And her shirt ought to be burnt by a vengeful God.

That t-shirt worn by Joe is not, for once, an obscenely expensive designer abortion. It is last year’s merch from Macy Rodman, a trans performer. Whatever the occasion, Joe can be trusted to make a desperate effort to shock the bougeoisie.



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[White-Kettle Shufflepunk]

It occurs to me that Grace's whole public persona is basically a lazier Hedonism Bot. Like, if Hedonism Bot couldn't even be bothered to have nearly nude slaves paint him with chocolate icing or whatever.

 

[Dr. Butt]

Fuck me, he's MASSIVE! Put the twiglets down, Joseph.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

Is that twisted up wry mouth expression some trick the gals tell each other will make their faces look slimmer or their eyebrows more even or some shit like that? It looks weird and uncomfortable.

 

[Paul Enwerdhoeven]

It occurs to me that Grace's whole public persona is basically a lazier Hedonism Bot. Like, if Hedonism Bot couldn't even be bothered to have nearly nude slaves paint him with chocolate icing or whatever.

Joe reminds me of Jeremy from Peep Show

 

[Trianon]

Is that twisted up wry mouth expression some trick the gals tell each other will make their faces look slimmer or their eyebrows more even or some shit like that? It looks weird and uncomfortable.

My own interpretation is that it's the nerdy girl duckface. Not full-on duckface, you're aware that you're duckfacing, but like, ironically, and you're trying to convey on your face that you think selfies are stupid but you live in a society so you figured, why not?

I may have a few old pictures that were some variant of this face from my teenage days.