Best-selling author JK Rowling has responded to a Twitter user who threatened her with a homemade bomb, the latest in a series of hateful messages she has received since she made controversial statements about sex and gender issues.
The 55-year-old “Harry Potter” series author shared a screenshot of the now-deleted tweet from an account that no longer exists on Twitter.
“I wish you a very good pipe bomb in the mailbox,” wrote Twitter user @queerqegaard.
In response, Rowling noted: “To be fair, when you can’t get a woman to fire, arrest or remove her publisher and cancel her it only caused her book sales to go up, there’s really only one place to go. “
The prolific author said she has been receiving threats of violence from angry critics and activists who find her views on sex and gender issues transphobic.
Responding to a Twitter user who referred to a comment she made in the past, Rowling said: “Hundreds of trans activists have threatened to beat me, rape me, murder me and bombard me. I realized that this movement poses no risk to women. . “
Last year, Rowling reacted to a Devex op-ed titled “Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for menstruating people. “
”’People who menstruate. “I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Somebody help me. Wumben? Wimpund?” Woomud? “Rowling said as she shared the article.
Critics were quick to criticize her, and many of them expressed disappointment after admiring her for years for her brilliant work on the “Harry Potter” series.
“I have not menstruated in 8 years due to early menopause. Are you implying that I am no longer a woman? Tbh, you are tremendously offensive,” wrote Twitter user @mettlesometeri in response to Rowling.
“That’s interesting, because I have endometriosis and an IUD to treat it, and therefore I no longer menstruate. I haven’t had a menstrual cycle since early high school, and I’m 21 years old. I guess I’m not a woman anymore ?: / “Said Twitter user @royallyqueer.
“I decided not to kill myself because I wanted to know how Harry’s story ended. For a long time, that was all that kept me alive. Until I met my husband, who helped me learn to love myself and want to live. You just swore to my face. I hate you, “@scary_library tweeted.
On the same day, Rowling published another tweet that said: “If sex is not real, there is no attraction to people of the same sex. If sex is not real, the reality experienced by women worldwide is erased. Infobarcelona. cat Brief news.
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