Ironic? Why so?

Translation: "Pat, pat, poor dears, so passé."

Maybe this is the new mode, since radical feminism has refused to capitulate to threats, vitriol, and demonization? To be portrayed as the doddery spinster aunts who are no longer quite all there?

And she needs to read the book again, because "genderqueerness" has given us a whole new set of "She wrote it, but ..."

• She wrote it, but ... she has identified out of womanhood.
• She wrote it, but ... she liked a JKR tweet and nobody will publish it.
• She wrote it, but ... it's feminist and buried under one star reviews.
• She wrote it, but ... by the time the editors and sensitivity readers got through with it, it's no longer her book.
• She wrote it, but ... the woke editorial juniors in the office kicked up such a stink about it, it may never be published.