2020-04-30

Baby Larry is a male and his father isn't much of a man

You may have seen the weirdo Toronto couple that keeps dressing their (male) baby up like Madonna.

For Pat Thornton and Maggie Maloney, dressing their baby Larry up in different costumes is getting them through the pandemic – and providing joy to tens of thousands of grateful fans on the internet.

“I thought this could be something we did together that would be fun for the whole family,” says Maloney, an elementary school teacher, who came up with the idea.

The couple debuted the first look – Canadian astronaut Roberta Bondar – on Twitter (@patthornton) on March 14, soon after schools closed and they, like everyone, started staying indoors.
You might be thinking to yourself "hey there have been other astronauts, right? Chris Hadfield is literally world famous."

Then you see the creepy Madonna picture, and the mermaid, and Cher, and you start to wonder if they wish Larry was a girl. The article drops little tidbits, starting with how Maggie isn't taking her husband's last name. Remember: all women who do this are disgusting.
As a teacher with an interest in crafts, Maloney has all the materials she needs in a closet. And Thornton has lots of wigs from his sketch comedy work.
Sketch comedy worker? Check.
They’ve had requests for Donald Trump and Doug Ford, but the pair want to keep things positive.
Extreme leftists? Check.
“It’s not the dressing him up as a girl [that would be embarrassing],” she says. “I want to raise a queer-positive, non-transphobic kid. I’m not raising a kid who’s going to be embarrassed that I put a wig on him. But I don’t want a picture to be rude.”
And there's the final nail in the coffin. They don't think being a male dressed unironically as Canada's one few female astronauts is embarrassing, but publicly stating they are positive with an evil sexual lifestyle is something to trumpet to a magazine.
“We don’t care,” says Thornton. “I think the future of the world is those gender [divisions] are going to get so blurred and forgotten. So many people say, ‘Oh, he’s going to need therapy.’ Hey man, everyone needs therapy.”
When your husband is a sketch comedy worker who is so feminized that you don't want to be Mrs. Pat Thornton you do probably need therapy: lots of therapy. But don't project your homo-loving pathologies onto the rest of us. "Those gender divisions" have outlasted hundreds of powerful societies and they'll outlast your faddish devotion. There's a reason therapy is needed by a specific philosophical/political bent that isn't me.