LONDON — Controversy continues to swirl around author JK Rowling who was recently dead named by her former title of “beloved.”
“It’s outrageous,” tweeted Annabelle Snail, a self-proclaimed expert on gender whose knowledge of the subject appears to begin and end with blue is for boys, pink is for girls. “These gender terrorists seem to think they can do whatever they like. Calling JK Rowling by her deadname of ‘beloved’ is beyond the pale. She has not answered to that title for a long time now and intends to never be known as ‘beloved’ ever again.”
Fans of the Harry Potter writer were divided on the issue with some saying it was dangerous for her to demand that she no longer be referred to by her previous title.
“I worry what comes next,” said John Boil, an adult man who regularly posts online about waiting for his letter to Hogwarts. “Will we see writers like Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, and Graham Linehan referred to as ‘cult favorites’ or ‘not scumbags’. Those are titles they’ve long since abandoned. In 2024, those names refer to different people and it’s irresponsible to refer to Linehan for example as anything other than his chosen descriptor of ‘TERF prick’ or ‘incredibly divorced loser’.”
A writer for the Daily Mail who was first accused of the dead-naming has since apologized.
“It was an error,” said Gary Schitt, a longtime writer for the Daily Mail and proud champion of straight rights. “Joanne Rowling who wrote the Harry Potter books under the initials JK to appeal to male readers who she believed wouldn’t want a book by a woman and who also goes by the male pen name Robert Galbraith, is a staunch believer in presenting yourself exactly as you were born. She was not born a ‘beloved’ writer and she will not die a ‘beloved’ writer so I must apologize for referring to her by that title.”
At press time, Rowling insisted that she has no intention of going back to her former titles and would like to be referred to as “unhinged lunatic” for the foreseeable future.
