And clearly not a joke. If it was a joke I would just laugh and maybe just improve it or counter it with a different one, there is not enough humor here lately.
And born out of apparently irrational hatred of a character. Murphy = Mab, even if I'm tired of seeing it, at least doesn't have that kind of needless derogation behind it.
No, what we have happening is a clear, consistent campaign of character assassination built on misinterpretations at best and outright falsehoods at worst. It manifests in attempts to remove any and all credit from Murphy for her genuine accomplishments ("She didn't really save the day, she just got played," or "Murphy didn't shoot Maeve and save Harry, Mab was controlling her the whole time," or "Nicodemus wouldn't have done anything if Murphy hadn't brought the Sword.") while insulting her or blaming her for everything wrong ("She's arrogant and thinks she knows better than God," or "She's just lecturing and nagging Harry," "She's still the same distrustful character she was in the first books" or "It's her fault that Butters didn't trust Harry.") and outright making things up ("Uriel said she shouldn't have the Swords," or "Murphy keeps winning fist fights with supernatural creatures, that's unrealistic.")
Murphy cooling Harry down from
nearly murdering her in a rage using her trust, patience, love and understanding of Harry becomes, "Murphy bullied and manipulated him so she could keep the Swords."
There was once a poster who argued that Murphy going to help Harry rescue Molly made Murphy personally and exclusively responsible for
every crime in the city of Chicago because she wasn't around to stop them.
We're all sick of seeing it. Frankly the way Murphy is torn down while other, male characters who do the same or worse than her are lauded or their offenses ignored (or even
projected on to Murphy) and the way that people are actively campaigning for her to be
fridged because of how it will hurt
Harry reeks of misogyny.
I mean, let's talk about Marcone for a second. Every few months there's a thread or a discussion on how people think he'll be a Knight of the Cross.
Read Even Hand. Read about how he very nearly gives Justine and an innocent child to the Fomor because that's what protocol is. Then read how, even after he's killed the Fomor lord and protected Justine and the child, he very nearly puts a bullet in her head anyway, just because she knows of his defenses and
might some day tell Harry about them. He only doesn't because that would draw Harry into a confrontation immediately, instead of somewhere down the line.
That, apparently, is Knight of the Cross material -- while Murphy, whose trust and love and faith and willingness to put herself to the hazard to save others is
cemented in the last several books, is constantly demeaned, blamed for others' mistakes and met with cries of "Kill her already so Harry can suffer/Molly can schtupp Harry instead!"