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

Why would someone post this??? Having a new number is basically the only guaranteed way to definitely stop people you don't have time for from messaging you.
Joe wants to know who’s paying attention and who wants to keep in touch IRL. I’m assuming he resorted to a public IG post because the response had been very underwhelming via other methods.

Or the post is for an intended audience of one - who he either does, or doesn’t, want to contact him.

I do wonder why he got a new number? I wonder if Mallory has it.
 
Given how often she locks herself out of the house, I assumed they gave her one of those preprogrammed phones for kids and seniors.
Mallory wandering around town in ill-fitting white pants and a golf shirt, Jitterbug in her pocket, key and emergency alert button around her neck. Not back by 8, call in a silver alert.
 
Mallory wandering around town in ill-fitting white pants and a golf shirt, Jitterbug in her pocket, key and emergency alert button around her neck. Not back by 8, call in a silver alert.
They do say HRT can cause brain damage but I didn't expect anything so profound as a once talented writer and feminist locking herself out of the house and wandering around the neighborhood like an Alzheimer'd baby boomer.
 
Book synopsis. Which really shows how he rewrites these things on the fly based on his 40 yo man understanding of where the popular winds are blowing . Last year It was about Psychoanalysis and possession hysteria , now it's something about tranny identity collapsing liberalism (dont give yourself all the credit) and the direct line linking Jimmy Savile to the TERF queen herself.

All this makes it sound like a continuation of the sitcom book, which is baffling considering how awful that was. A book about the challenges of gender ideology could be a topic onto itself, while examining it through the lens of Patrick Swayze's Ghost and Joe's favorite Rick and Morty episode sounds like an absolutely asinine, BreadTube tier, 'how do i make this shit popular' sort of move .

This man is not a pop culture scholar. He doesn't have to write about adult swim cartoons.
He is just enough of a man child that he wants to.


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Watches something on the teevee, goes to a mirror, strikes his Insightful Intellectual pose, and begins babbling at his voice-to-text app?

"Develop modes of collective living" reads like Joe, noting the mini-harem's assets are about gone, wants more contributors to his interiority.

Buy a patch of desert, Joe, and plunk down some shipping containers for a collective bunk room and a restaurant. Wait, farm alpacas! I mean, have the girls and lumberjacks do that while you watch "The Boondocks."
 
Book synopsis. Which really shows how he rewrites these things on the fly based on his 40 yo man understanding of where the popular winds are blowing . Last year It was about Psychoanalysis and possession hysteria , now it's something about tranny identity collapsing liberalism (dont give yourself all the credit) and the direct line linking Jimmy Savile to the TERF queen herself.

All this makes it sound like a continuation of the sitcom book, which is baffling considering how awful that was. A book about the challenges of gender ideology could be a topic onto itself, while examining it through the lens of Patrick Swayze's Ghost and Joe's favorite Rick and Morty episode sounds like an absolutely asinine, BreadTube tier, 'how do i make this shit popular' sort of move .

This man is not a pop culture scholar. He doesn't have to write about adult swim cartoons.
He is just enough of a man child that he wants to.


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Ouch. That's some high grade academic gobbledygook right there. Mal's not the only one in dire need of a good editor.
 
This man is not a pop culture scholar. He doesn't have to write about adult swim cartoons.
He is just enough of a man child that he wants to.
Isn’t this drivel just part of the “publish or perish” hamster wheel Joe is on? Interest in Victorian literature is at a very low ebb and Joe is already on thin ice at Berkeley. I figure churning out BS like this at least pads out his faculty bio, which is needed since he barely teaches any classes.

I think Joe thought he could secure a place as niche “celebrity professor” and get a longer leash and better pay, if only that trans-scholar NYC writer fame thing had panned out.

I think Joe was hoping to get Judith Butler’s attention and carve out a similar niche to hers. (He figured being a tranny, instead of a fey white man, would greatly up his chances of success.) Fortunately for us Joe just became a great example of what an intellectually vacuous and censored clown show the academic tranny world was.

I’m not sure the humanities will ever recover from letting middling, propagandists like Joe become tenured professors. Especially when you remember he was hired to teach undergrads about Victorian literature, but decided to pivot to preaching the importance of sucking tranny cock.

English departments coddled BS that even the poli-sci and philosophy depts would have never tolerated thanks to the plague of comparative literature and integrating with gender/queer studies.
 
Isn’t this drivel just part of the “publish or perish” hamster wheel Joe is on? Interest in Victorian literature is at a very low ebb and Joe is already on thin ice at Berkeley. I figure churning out BS like this at least pads out his faculty bio, which is needed since he barely teaches any classes.
Yeah that's the thing, he doesn't teach much of anything. His few courses are all modern introductory stuff, with a dash of Freud and Sean Baker movies. Even when teaching Auden he picked his one embarrassing gay poem, which is like doing a whole semester on Joyce's fart letters. The man is not any kind of academic. His writing about rick and morty is not a choice. It's matter of capacity.

Part of his tranny pivot was him trying (in as much as joe ever tries anything) to be a Julia Serano or maybe a Andrea Chu, minus the talent and filtered through Butlers thick academic jargon gobbledygook. What he lacked is anything worthwhile to say. Monograms about season 5 of Leave It to Beaver followed by rambling unsubstantiated claims on whatever topic rustled his jimmies this week are not really what anyone is interested in.

His books just meander from topic to topic. Sometimes on theme but usually not. And while I've read a lot of useless academic junk, there is usually something you can say for it. That sitcom book had nothing.

I know most people here never actually read him, but Joe is not a mediocre scholar as ran through a thesaurus. He is simply a fraud.


My pet theory is that the troon menace didn't, in the end, kill the humanities. though it will be remembered as the stake with which it was eventually nailed to a cross. The gay shit was all a last desperate pivot towards relevancy from a discipline that had long lost its way. Becoming a soft option/ political platform for rootles elites. The gender theorists are not only to be hated as academic grifters; they are to be singled out for contempt for having so thoroughly cleaned out English and literature departments such that they are unlikely to be rebuilt in our lifetime.
 
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Throuple proof of life from Lumberjack Dan. Caption says:
the baby has recently figured out that trying to bite any of us makes us laugh hysterically. but it’s actually scary because he bites so hard. so the laughter is real but it’s also panicked. he’s not doing it in this picture but it’s soooo funny and so painful and i love my family
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Joe, only two chins and infinitely easier to look at when he's not doing AGP wammanly duckface. Nice stubble, bro.
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Mallory has nice teeth and a pretty smile. But what's that shit all over her upper lip?
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Lily, 44 years old. She doesn't look a day over 45.
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Autism alert, I think that house number behind them is 365. Definitely looks like the Bay Area. I did a reverse Google search of the house and came up with a bunch of results from Oakland (though no exact matches).
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House looks like Lily's was brought in via tornado and dropped in the backyard of the lady whose arthritis outpaced her gardening efforts 20 years ago but her many cats enjoy the jungle.

It will surprise none of you that I was a biter like Rocco. Mom got me to stop by biting me back on one occasion. Changed not just my behavior but also my life and now I'm here on the Kiwi Farms. Save a place at the table for Rocco.
 
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In looking for more Mal fashion triumphs, I came across the "Male Novelist Jokes" video (4:04 min) from August 2014. Funny ol' world with Daniel now an established male novelist, and while a couple of her targets here sound like Joe, Joe is neither novelist nor male.

super hot I'm so sorry it's toasty
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got two pieces for you this one's called male novelist jokes
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how many male novelists does it
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take to screw in a light bulb the
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terrible sex he had had made him feel
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deeply interesting like a murder
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[Music]
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victim how many male novelists does it
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take to screw in a li buo the Beast
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which had represented his feelings was
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dead I think I'll do a push-up he
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announced to the Sea and the Sea respected him for
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it how many male novelists does it take
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to screw in a light bulb 4,000 words
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from the narrator about his feelings on being
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circumcised how many male novelists does
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it take to screw in a light bulb War as
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hell how many male novelists does it
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would take to screw in a light bulb he
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straightened his tie he had lost but in
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a romantic way which meant that he had
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[Music]
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won I'm going to do a push-up he
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announced to his TI his tie respected
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him for it and secretly wished that it
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could have sex with him how many male novelists does it take
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to screw in a light bulb you wouldn't
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understand how many male mother does it
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take to skill in a life he swore curses
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at his co-workers he was making a lot of money and also drugs
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[ __ ] how many male novelists does it
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take to screw in a light bulb this
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neighborhood in New York City was very
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different from the other neighborhood in
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New York City that he had just been
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in how many male novelists does it take
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to screw on a light bul he lit a cigarette his glass of whiskey lit a
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cigarette I can only truly love my dead
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best friend he said but not in a gay
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way women wouldn't understand they're
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too gay both of the cigarettes
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agreed how many male novelists does it
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take to screw in a light bulb 4,000
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words about an isolated encounter with a
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service worker that borders on racist
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and goes nowhere how many male novelists does it take to
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screw in a light bulb the cocaine isn't
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the point the cocaine is a metaphor he explained wearily over the
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pile of cocaine she folded her arms because she
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didn't understand his work or
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[Music]
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cocaine didn't you read my Manifesto the prostitute had read his
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Manifesto why couldn't she how many male novelists does it take
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to screw in a light bulb this light bulb
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is inauthentic how many male novelists does
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it take to screw in a light bulb it's
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only the institution I have a problem
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with he explained to the empty
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bar how many male novelists does it take
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to screwing in a light bulb the time had
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come for him to go to war and also to
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find himself and also to reject the
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rules of your Society how many male lists has it take
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to screw in a light bulb his alcoholism
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was different from everyone else's
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alcoholism because someday he was going
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to die how many male novelists does it take
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to screw in a light bulb nothing happens
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for 450 Pages receives 14 national awards
 
Why do the people who supposedly love "literature" so very much they form their entire identity around it, have a child's understanding of it?

None of these quips transcend the level of a viola joke. They are unfunny because they are nothing more than stereotype. You could make any of these gags without having read a single page of any of the "male novelists" being sent up. The equivalent level of unfunny and corny for female novelists would be something like:

how many female novelists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
first you need a room of your own!
how many female novelists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
depends on if you're looking for the bluest eye!
how many female novelists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
idk can it be a zipless screw?

Wait that last one was almost funny. My apologies.

how many female novelists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
let's wear high waisted dresses with lots of decolletage and obsess over meaningless social minutiae until we get turned into a half dozen movies and PBS miniseries!
how many female novelists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
lol HEATHCLIFF lol CATHERINE lol
how many female novelists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
something something slavery and rape
how many female novelists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
nobody ever actually reads this book but they know the author was a lesbian!
how many female novelists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
I wrote about the dangers of transhumanism 200 years ago and all I got was this Boris Karloff movie

I'm sorry. I got emotional. I lost my temper. I just wanted her to suffer the way she makes us suffer.
 
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