Anybody following Grace Lavery and Mallory "Daniel" Ortberg?
Ortberg, a lesbian, used to write cutesy clever shit for women's websites
The Hairpin and
The Toast and went on to write Slate's
Dear Prudence advice column. "Grace" Lavery is a tenured English professor at Berkeley. He met Ortberg online, got her into his thrall, and trooned out. Within a year, Ortberg trooned out too and chopped off her tits.
Before trooning:
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After:
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Lavery. I'm a laydee, you see:
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Ortberg always looks extremely uncomfortable in her own skin. She has that awkward side grin in 90% of photos.
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So yeah, they're gross. They are notable for the "weird coincidence" that they were both trannies when they met but just hadn't realized it yet?!‽‽? Weird?!‽‽ And for the Cluster B and AGP which radiates off of Lavery like a bad smell.
They both post prolifically online and recently created a shitstorm of drama for themselves to wallow in: they simultaneously announced, "We have permanently cut contact with Daniel's (Ortberg's) ENTIRE FAMILY and we will never speak to them again! It's sooooo painful! But we can't say why we did it! This has been the WORST WEEK EVER!"
Lavery has a
partially paywalled blog, and bragged about his "hundreds" of new subscribers...all of whom definitely joined just hoping for details about the mystery estrangement. Ortberg got a shitty drama queen tattoo that says "Disinherited." And they announced that they are moving from the Bay Area to NYC to get away from Ortberg's family. Lavery claims he will retain his professorship at Berkeley and will "commute" between NYC and California. Ortberg publicly expressed gratitude that Lavery was able to guide her through permanently cutting her family out of her life...because Lavery had already permanently cut contact with his own family.
Ortberg has the much larger following, but Lavery is the really compelling troon in the situation imho. He's an obvious narcissist, he is clearly manipulating Ortberg, and he's just so disgusting to look at! I tried searching the Farms a couple of times to see if anybody was talking about these freaks, no luck. I ended up finding /r/blogsnark, which is a community for women who are obsessed with Mormon mommy bloggers but find GOMI too spicy for their tastes. There were a
couple of
threads on Lavery/Ortberg, but they had been locked by the mods because of "transphobia and brigading." Users were screaming about TERFs, tarring each other as TERFs, and pointing which /r/blogsnark users also commented on TERF subreddits (lol).
It's unbelievably pathetic that women's communities and troon communities are the only places where troon shit is protected at all costs. Like anyone who dares to raise an eyebrow at Frank N Furter here is obviously a hateful bigoted TERF who must be shunned!
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Anyway, as far as I can tell, Ortberg is moving full speed ahead with the estrangement. She legally changed her surname to "Lavery" and is getting married to him in a couple of days. They're still posting constant references to the mystery estrangment on social media but have not revealed the nature of it. These people are too exhausting to be lolcows, but it's pretty obvious that Lavery is a narcissistic troon who is heavily manipulating Ortberg. I wish I could take a peek at them in five years. No chance they haven't ruined each other's lives.