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

[Entry Team To TOC]

I hate to be the boner killer, but mostly it just turns my stomach with empathy pains for her parents who have clearly been through hell because of Mallory.

I hope the funny part comes back to me! I hate to see clueless, immature adult kids rake parents over the coals for being good parents. Mallory has no clue what a thankless, difficult thing it is to raise kids.

I'll admit to being particularly fixated on Mallory's Wild Ride because of how odious I find her behavior, especially since the rest of her family has the sense to not constantly be spazzing out on social media, as far as I'm aware. It tends to have them fall out of mind beyond the occasions where Mal starts malding about her dad again. The funny part got to me because she's become a genuinely bad person and the comeuppance that is her entire life going forward is just plain entertaining when I keep in mind how much she's earned it.

 

[bijoux_hexjinx]

Is it the case that Mallory needs the allegations against her father and brother to be true? Otherwise she threw her family away for...what? She got her 2edgy4u tattoo(s) for...what? Dr. JoeBrosephIt'sMa'am and his Fertile Wimman?

Also, something in me cringes painfully seeing her on twitter saying "my son" "my baby". He is not yours, Mallory. I'm sorry. Really fucking sorry. Genuinely.

(top hats welcome, soz)

 

[Bookwork]

Is it the case that Mallory needs the allegations against her father and brother to be true?

Yes. That is the case.

 

[Autistic Nonetheless]

Reading through this thread sure got a lot less funny once children got involved.

Considering that Joe’s problem is fundamentally selfishness, the birth of his child does afford him a new instrument by which to shock the complacent masses. Hence the pedo comments.

As far as his writing goes Joe tried to base his career on the type of brutal honesty and shocking insights that served him so well as a young undergraduate.
Problem is, now that he is older he has discovered his energy gone, his insights unremarkable, and his honesty hardly worth a damn.
Small surprise that he is trying new stunts like inviting the dailymail to cover the birth. Out of touch Murdoch media readers are probably the only people still able to be shocked by his polycule.

In a way i suspect Joe resents Mallory for bringing all this lolcow business into is life. ‘How will this funny creature fit into my eventual multi volume biography’ is a thought that probably crossed his mind more then once. For all the supposed irony he takes himself very seriously.

 

[Bookwork]

Reading through this thread sure got a lot less funny once children got involved.

Considering that Joe’s problem is fundamentally selfishness, the birth of his child does afford him a new instrument by which to shock the complacent masses. Hence the pedo comments.

As far as his writing goes Joe tried to base his career on the type of brutal honesty and shocking insights that served him so well as a young undergraduate.
Problem is, now that he is older he has discovered his energy gone, his insights unremarkable, and his honesty hardly worth a damn.
Small surprise that he is trying new stunts like inviting the dailymail to cover the birth. Out of touch Murdoch media readers are probably the only people still able to be shocked by his polycule.

In a way i suspect Joe resents Mallory for bringing all this lolcow business into is life. ‘How will this funny creature fit into my eventual multi volume biography’ is a thought that probably crossed his mind more then once. For all the supposed irony he takes himself very seriously.

Was Joe proximate to honesty in his youth? He comes across as a lifelong poseur.

 

[Autistic Nonetheless]

Joe currently insists that neither sex nor gender are real, that all his favorite victorian figures were transgender, and that all crimes should be abolished.
Whatever new-atheist, revisionist , trotskyite shtick he had as a young man naturally transitioned into gender abolition.
like an edgy standup he needs to shock. Otherwise people may stop paying attention.

 

[Bookwork]

Joe currently insists that neither sex nor gender are real, that all his favorite victorian figures were transgender, and that all crimes should be abolished.
Whatever new-atheist, revisionist , trotskyite shtick he had as a young man naturally transitioned into gender abolition.
like an edgy standup he needs to shock. Otherwise people may stop paying attention.

He's on his way now to campaigning for the right of small children to sate their sexual appetite for ugly old men.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Joe currently insists that neither sex nor gender are real, that all his favorite victorian figures were transgender, and that all crimes should be abolished.
Whatever new-atheist, revisionist , trotskyite shtick he had as a young man naturally transitioned into gender abolition.
like an edgy standup he needs to shock. Otherwise people may stop paying attention.

Except he doesn't understand his audiences, so like an edgy standup who didn't actually have an act they dwindle in size increasingly and bookings are hard to come by.

 

[Autistic Nonetheless]

Except he doesn't understand his audiences, so like an edgy standup who didn't actually have an act they dwindle in size increasingly and bookings are hard to come by.

He is too self absorbed to grift properly, being hopelessly pushed in opposite direction by his failed academic aspirations and his need to be online famous.
Some people can do both, but Joe keeps trying to be professorial to online bullies and sassy in his writing.

hard to remember but he used to have proper online cachet.

 

[Bumbling Idiot]

It worries me what these narcissists will move onto next, as the shock value diminishes and other grifters battle for attention/ money

Where else do they go but down, because they don't know anything else (unless they "discover" religion and seek cash from gullible believers for being Prodigal Sons)

 

[Potatis Salad]

I think it's perfectly normal for a parent to take pics of his/her babies naked. Moments like baby bathtime or a naked toddler running around playing with the hose are just cute, it's great to have memories like that in the form of pictures. It is completely appropriate imho to take them and share them with close family.

I also don't think there's anything sexual about Joe doing whatever the fuck this is.

But it's just so incredibly weird and gross to take a picture of an unclothed Rocco in the middle of a diaper change, crop it within a hair's breadth of his genitals, and blast it out to 10k+ followers, plus untold numbers of malevolent Nazi/TERF stalkers/revenge porn purveyors. Why? WHY? The photo is otherwise nondescript, he's surely got 10,000 other cute pics in his camera roll, just fucking choose a different one! Or if you absolutely must post this one, do it for close friends only! Or don't post anything!!!


Other bits and bobs from Instagram:

From Joe's Insta:


From Lily's Insta, lmao that "gorpcore Romanticism" vest is retarded looking:





Also from Lily:


*shudder* I don't know why I find him so repulsive, but god, he is. The way he's mugging for the camera like he's in the throes of ecstasy....

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

I also don't think there's anything sexual about Joe doing whatever the fuck this is.

I do. Maybe it's not sexual when someone else does something similar to this. Maybe that person is just naive or something. Not Joe. He's advertising. They have been since day one with this poor doomed kid.

late edit:



What the fuck is she wearing? Is that a parachute pants dress/poncho/tarp?

 

[Trianon]

They are going to Minnesota "for a while."

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Moving somewhere cheaper? Scouting? Living with Lily's family members?

 

[monstrous bubo]

What the fuck is she wearing? Is that a parachute pants dress/poncho/tarp?

Lala Lily said that was gorpcore, which is wearing hiking/outdoors clothes as streetwear, so yeah. It’s probably one of Tard Baby’s things from an attempt at being a rough and tough wilderness man (don’t remember that arc myself, but it’s consistent with the larp). Gotta say, it’s not a bad choice; it functions as a sleeveless dress with a tricksy ruched hemline, and a waterproof or wipeable fabric is sensible when a geyser of bodily fluids can erupt without warning from Bobby Joe.

The Marianne / Willoughby thing is a reference to Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility. It’s too much to ask them to stop the tiresome literary allusions, but can anyone in this household at least read something else?

 

[Diana Moon Glampers]

Lily is going to have to pay back the university if she doesn't go teach there for at least another year. And if she leaves she'll have to give up all her seniority. Lily will also have the community around her that she had for a number of years if she moves back to Ann Arbor.

 

[Potatis Salad]

Lily is going to have to pay back the university if she doesn't go teach there for at least another year. And if she leaves she'll have to give up all her seniority. Lily will also have the community around her that she had for a number of years if she moves back to Ann Arbor.

Agreed, I think "going to the Midwest for a while" = "moving to Michigan."

 

[Autistic Nonetheless]

Lily is going to have to pay back the university if she doesn't go teach there for at least another year. And if she leaves she'll have to give up all her seniority. Lily will also have the community around her that she had for a number of years if she moves back to Ann Arbor.

I kinda hope Lily knows better then to rely on Joe.
Surely she just wanted a kid and sees this polycule nonsense as some play pretend adventure to inject some fun into her life.

She seems better put together then then our dynamic duo.

 

[everybody in Portugal]

Or if you absolutely must post this one, do it for close friends only!

Bold of you to assume these three insufferable cunts have any close friends left (or ever did, in Joe's case)

Or don't post anything!!!

I'm not sure that jowly dickhead is capable. His sense of self is almost entirely derived from other people's reactions to his shtick. There is a sucking void at the centre of him that is temporarily filled by creating controversy or recieving asspats, without those he knows he would be an ordinary, nothing little man with absolutely zero to contribute to the world.

 

[Bookwork]

They are going to Minnesota "for a while."

Interesting how closely that follows Mal's frantic search for a NYC apartment. Gives new meaning to "outer borough."

 

[bei_rav]

The Marianne / Willoughby thing is a reference to Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility. It’s too much to ask them to stop the tiresome literary allusions, but can anyone in this household at least read something else?

Given Willoughby is a stone cold predator, and Marianne his hapless dupe, what could this even mean when it comes to playing with your baby? You ask can they read something else, but can they even read the book they are referencing? Of course, it's probably optimistic to put down the reference to ignorant showboating, as the diaper change photo, baby sucking fingers comment, etc, all show. Who was it up thread that said they were moving toward teasing woke pedophilia? Their vibes have been there for awhile.