Pipebombs for Rowling, apparently.
J. K. Rowling has hit out at a Twitter user on Monday, after she was sent a “pipebomb” threat amid a series of attacks over her previous statements about trans women.
The Harry Potter author shared a screenshot of the offending tweet, which was directed at her on Sunday, as she slammed the efforts of some trans activists to get her “cancelled.”
Responding to the post—which read, “I wish you a very nice pipebomb in the mailbox”—Rowling wrote: “To be fair, when you can’t get a woman sacked, arrested or dropped by her publisher, and cancelling her only made her book sales go up, there’s really only one place to go.”
After another Twitter user asked if the threat was a reaction to Rowling’s statements about men being allowed to use women’s restrooms and changing rooms “by simply saying they identify as a woman,” the writer said: “Yes, but now hundreds of trans activists have threatened to beat, rape, assassinate and bomb me I’ve realised that this movement poses no risk to women whatsoever.”
On Sunday, Rowling hit back at another Twitter user, who accused the star of ignoring “porn tweeted at children” in her posts.
Defending herself, Rowling wrote: “I’ll give you a moment to think hard about leaving that up. I reported every bit of porn so-called trans allies tweeted into Twitter threads where children were sending me artwork for the Ickabog. I didn’t respond or retweet it because I didn’t want more kids to see it.”
