Chelsea Clinton Is Mad That People Don’t Like How Her New Book Is Being Marketed

I guess we can add customer criticism to the list of things that spoiled, selfish, pampered, privileged Chelsea Clinton doesn’t like.

You may or may not be aware that Chelsea has a new picture book out for children. Called (oh-so-creatively) “She Persisted.” The book is meant to be a collection of stories of “Strong Female Characters”(tm) throughout history, written so that little girls can have famous role models to look up to. Because there just aren’t enough women being highlighted in children’s literature, whether in fiction or non-fiction.

(And if you didn’t check out the links in that sentence, that was meant as total sarcasm. For the past several years, there has been a veritable glut of female characters in all levels of children’s and teen literature and not quite so many books about men and boys. At least, none where the male characters are worthy of admiration – they’re either total morons or anemic love interests. Yet feminists continually scream that there still aren’t enough female characters for little girls to read about. While I’ve read many of those books and more besides and even enjoyed them – the trend is getting more than a little ridiculous. Some balance would be nice.)

Anyway – a prominent website that promotes books called “Room to Read” tweeted this about Chelsea’s new book –

“We need more children’s books with female main characters” We agree @ChelseaClinton Her new book hitting shelves soon aims to do just that! pic.twitter.com/tfOwNruVcK

— Room to Read (@RoomtoRead) May 10, 2017

Yeah – what was I just saying in the last paragraph? Girls have plenty of female characters to read and enjoy. A crappy politically-charged picture book from a woman born into a political dynasty who is TOTALLY NOT greasing the wheels for her own run for political office is not going to tip the scales in favor of female readers. If nothing else, Chelsea’s book is just going to be one of many in the pile.

Which is what some people pointed out in response to Room to Read –

See how lefties sow discord? There are tons of books & stories with female main characters. #KidsBooksWithGirlMainCharacters https://t.co/VdhlsM7XVs

— The Morning Spew (@TheMorningSpew) May 10, 2017

@TheMorningSpew How about Little House on the Prairie series for starters. Dumb shits.

— Jill (@ItsJustJill) May 10, 2017

@TheMorningSpew Nancy Drew and my personal favorite Trixie Belden from my much younger days

— Diane B ™ (@dmb1031) May 10, 2017

And there was this incredibly valid point –

@TheMorningSpew So:

1. there are no such things as males and females, and
2. we need more females.

🤔

— Poochini🎻 (@coopernumpy) May 10, 2017

Seriously – why are you assuming readers’ genders? What if some kid absolutely NEEDS a book about a historical figure who identified as a blorkongender in order to feel validated in “xyghr” life? How DARE you leave that poor child out!

Anyway… enter Chelsea, bless her conniving little Clinton heart, took issue with people hurling “vitriol” against Room to Read –

Hi “righteous one.”Just me. Instead of responding to a tweet celebrating someone else’s work-please send any vitriol directly to me. Thanks! https://t.co/QwCanxwUdC

— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) May 10, 2017

Um… since when is pointing out a fact about children’s literature being vitriolic? And why does Chelsea feel the need to answer every criticism of her book? Clearly, she’s new to this whole “author” thing. No matter what you write or how good it is, somebody is going to come along to criticize it. And if you’re an author spending all your time responding to those critics, you’re not going to have time for much else. Certainly not writing new books that you could then sell to your readers who are eagerly waiting to pay you Actual Money for your next installment.

Then again, this is Chelsea Clinton we’re talking about. She’s been shielded from criticism and correction all her life (I think it was even a condition of her glorified paid internship at NBC – nobody could critique Chelsea because she wasn’t used to it and it would upset her or something). Anyone who says mean things about her is just wrong.

If Chelsea wasn’t so insufferable, I would almost feel sorry for her.

(h/t Twitchy)