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

Without those obnoxious pink hipster glasses, she looks healthy and happy
I don't dislike Lily, and I wish she & the baby a Katie Holmes-level escape from her current relationship situation. Clean, smooth, unexpected. But she has pretty bad skin. Please take niacin Lily (nicotinamide) according to at least one study it can prevent some precancerous spots.
starts with “btw” as in “I don’t want to be a bother but by the way, if you have time…”,
She may be trying to do a late 90s-early aughts thing. Which was like, a bait and switch. A friendly "by the way" followed by either huge news or a bitchy comment. I can't tell with Mal.

I get her being uncomfortable with self promotion but in that case just hire someone to write tweets for you
 
ed. But she has pretty bad skin. Please take niacin Lily (nicotinamide) according to at least one study it can prevent some precancerous spots.
Add a chemical peel and a regular routine with moisturizer and 50spf sunscreen. She’s not ugly, or anything, but her smile does wonders for her. Happiness suits her. I can’t believe how much longer it’ll last-Joe can’t be having that
 
Much Joeness this morning. First, he joined our man Dan for the Schuler Books talk in Okemos. He was both nice and wonderful.
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Text: "got to talk about Women's Hotel with my nice wonderful wife last night"
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Meanwhile, Joe found time to squabble on X about how well he and all other troons and pooners pass. It spun off of troon hate directed at terfish @michaelpforan, a lecturer in public law at the University of Glasgow, who posted an explainer back on 10/19 of "the single-sex exceptions in the Equality Act 2010 and a breakdown of why blanket policies in relation to female only services are almost always lawful and proportionate."

Days of hissing and spitting followed - though not from Dr. Foran - and Joe jumped in on one of the branch discussions that used a screen shot of a sub-sub-comment Dr. Foran made answering a question about who might be excluded from women's spaces under the law. It did not say, "If you look like Joe Lavery, out you go," but Joe felt his pissing rights were threatened. Picking up the action here:
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Joe Lavery at last bestirred himself here with:
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Text: 'GC tradition does include lying, though. “We can always tell.”'

Three days have passed now and his boldness has been rewarded with only 6 likes and no retweets. But it got one reply, which served up four images of non-passers, including one of Joe. Joe responded with four images of people he believes do pass (did not include himself), and they flipped pix back and forth as they made their way to a comparison of typical male and female heights.
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And so it ended with Joe outlasting @davecorviddave, who had found more interesting things to do. Joe still doesn't pass, though. Sad.
 
Meanwhile, Joe found time to squabble on X about how well he and all other troons and pooners pass. It spun off of troon hate directed at terfish @michaelpforan, a lecturer in public law at the University of Glasgow, who posted an explainer back on 10/19 of "the single-sex exceptions in the Equality Act 2010 and a breakdown of why blanket policies in relation to female only services are almost always lawful and proportionate."

Academic slapfights are pretty funny. Let’s look at how this played out:

Michael Foran, Ph.D in law, author of book on the issue

being lectured on the law by

Sally Hines, Ph.D. in sociology, specialist in gender studies

who is rebuked by

Jo Phoenix, Ph.D in sociology, specialist in criminology, critic of self-ID because of effect on women (for example, those in prison are particularly vulnerable), bullied out of her university for her terf views, rape survivor, actual lesbian

who is then attacked by

Joe Lavery, Ph.D. in literature, pretend woman, pretend lesbian, prison abolitionist because rapists should be free to roam the streets.

I suppose once you’ve accepted that a man can pretend to be a woman it’s easy to believe a non-expert can lecture an expert.
 
Forgive me if I’m misremembering (I try not to think about, or look at, Joe Lavery too often) but I thought he’d done a little reverse ferret in recent months, saying things like “What makes you think I ever said I was trans?”, “what makes you think I ever said I’m a woman?”

Was this a temporary blip in the immediate aftermath of becoming a father, a high that has now subsided, leaving room for his autogynephilia to ramp up again?
 
Academic slapfights are pretty funny. Let’s look at how this played out:

Michael Foran, Ph.D in law, author of book on the issue

being lectured on the law by

Sally Hines, Ph.D. in sociology, specialist in gender studies

who is rebuked by

Jo Phoenix, Ph.D in sociology, specialist in criminology, critic of self-ID because of effect on women (for example, those in prison are particularly vulnerable), bullied out of her university for her terf views, rape survivor, actual lesbian

who is then attacked by

Joe Lavery, Ph.D. in literature, pretend woman, pretend lesbian, prison abolitionist because rapists should be free to roam the streets.

I suppose once you’ve accepted that a man can pretend to be a woman it’s easy to believe a non-expert can lecture an expert.

Sally needs to stop womansplaining
 
Much Joeness this morning. First, he joined our man Dan for the Schuler Books talk in Okemos. He was both nice and wonderful.
Joe proving predictable as ever and using Mallory’s appearances to promote himself. I’m sure he brought copies of his book, pen and witty inscription rtg.

I’m assuming, aside from “in the building/ area already” audience component the rest would be people who knew of Mallory from The Toast or her Jane Text book. I can’t imagine the level of confusion and cringe when Joe joined her for the talk. When someone has a hideous partner you assume they must be bringing a lot to the table in other areas. Joe opens his mouth a disabuses one of the notion quickly.

The best part is nothing can make Mallory even less masculine than sitting next to her fat hulk of a “wife.” Some shop is doing Joe dirty recommending big puffy clothes. Those are for thin waif like women, where the fluffy or poofy elements contrast starkly with a thin and delicate frame to elegant effect. They just look like clown clothes on Joe, even in “slimming” black. He should just raid LaLa’s maternity clothes, it would be an improvement.

I’m actually surprised there’s not some pact between pooners and MTF to never appear next to each due to the comedy value and easy fodder for all the “transphobes”
 
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Much Joeness this morning. First, he joined our man Dan for the Schuler Books talk in Okemos. He was both nice and wonderful.
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Text: "got to talk about Women's Hotel with my nice wonderful wife last night"

Wtf. It is Mal's book, job, time to shine, whatever - and Joe is right in there OF COURSE. Idk if that down to him or down to her, but it is effing warped for a full grown woman to need her daddy-wife protecting/monitoring her like that. AT HER JOB.

And look at that frump up there looking bored and disapproving while Mal bounces around like a chipmunk.

I think the fist in the mouth pic says more about their psychological relationship that I ever took it for doing.
 
Three days have passed now and his boldness has been rewarded with only 6 likes and no retweets. But it got one reply, which served up four images of non-passers, including one of Joe. Joe responded with four images of people he believes do pass (did not include himself), and they flipped pix back and forth as they made their way to a comparison of typical male and female heights.
This is not the first time Joe has supplied a bunch of AI-generated images of faces as evidence that troons pass. I guess he's trying to get someone to identify the sex of the AI faces and then go, "Gotcha, these aren't even real people!" Idiotic as usual. Each AI face appears to belong to one sex or the other because human faces have sex-specific characteristics.
 
Forgive me if I’m misremembering (I try not to think about, or look at, Joe Lavery too often) but I thought he’d done a little reverse ferret in recent months, saying things like “What makes you think I ever said I was trans?”, “what makes you think I ever said I’m a woman?”

Was this a temporary blip in the immediate aftermath of becoming a father, a high that has now subsided, leaving room for his autogynephilia to ramp up again?

Yes. It wasn't your shrooms. It was actually Joe doing that "you know nothing about the mystery that is me" thing.

I guess he couldn't resist the Xitter bait. "I do pass as a lovely lady, I do, I do," as he clomps along on Mal's book tour in second-hand designer fails, his weird old man face hanging out of his cut-it-myself shag.

This is not the first time Joe has supplied a bunch of AI-generated images of faces as evidence that troons pass.

Ah! I didn't know the pix origin. But it was obvious that the lazy slug had them at the ready from other tussles. This is the perfect application of AI - fake pix to illustrate nonexistent people so that a faker can pretend to himself that he won an argument with his brilliant dishonesty.

I think the fist in the mouth pic says more about their psychological relationship that I ever took it for doing.

I had to wonder whether Mal referred to him in her Insta post as her "nice" something or other and he glanced at it moments after she posted it and went, "NICE? I'm in this shithole town in fucking Michigan because you're scared of public speaking and the best you can do is NICE?" So in went "wonderful" and she was too flustered to take out "nice."
 
Ah! I didn't know the pix origin. But it was obvious that the lazy slug had them at the ready from other tussles. This is the perfect application of AI - fake pix to illustrate nonexistent people so that a faker can pretend to himself that he won an argument with his brilliant dishonesty.
I'm not saying you should have looked closely at the images to notice this because why would you, but just providing documentation of Joe's retardery: the pics have a watermark in the corner from generative AI model StyleGAN2:
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In previous years when attempting this same "argument", Joe used images from inferior AI models that had more noticeable artifacts.
 
Shoving your way into your spouse's book tour is actual toxic masculinity.
Imagine we are transported back to 2015 and Mallory Ortberg is promoting her new book and suddenly her English Professor husband insists on “helping” her talk about her new book during her appearances. The outrage would have been ridiculous. But since he claims he’s a woman and she got her tits chopped, it’s all ok and in fact very progressive.
 
Joe proving predictable as ever and using Mallory’s appearances to promote himself.
This reminds me of when someone in the band brings their spouse (usually a new wife) on tour and does a song with her. The audience generally hates it. However I do see how if you're an artist who travels it's sometimes hard to keep the family together. I think that's generally why couples do this.

It is deeply weird to see Mallory who's got a following but is hardly a star (this is her first novel) and Joe (who should be in Cali teaching FFS, this is the school year) doing this.

They are SO STRANGE. If I ever write a novel it will be about a nasty toxic couple like them.
 
This reminds me of when someone in the band brings their spouse (usually a new wife) on tour and does a song with her. The audience generally hates it. However I do see how if you're an artist who travels it's sometimes hard to keep the family together. I think that's generally why couples do this.
Yeah, but Mallory is hardly a traveling artist that struggles to spend time with Joe. They appear to be joined at the hip for the past six years. If anything some time away from each other would seem far more normal than taking him on a “book tour” that was all of four days away from home.
 
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