From Cosmopolitan

With Donald Trump proposing tax cuts for the very richest, deporting immigrants who have been in the U.S. nearly their entire lives, and potentially hurling us into nuclear war with North Korea, you would think Americans have plenty of political threats to worry about. But now, according to at least vocal male pundits, there’s another menace on the horizon: Chelsea Clinton.

What exactly is Chelsea’s problem? Her last name, to start - she’s part of a “failed political dynasty,” according to a recent article in Vanity Fair, because “failure” now apparently means a family that includes one parent who is a former president and governor, and another who is a former senator, secretary of state, and presidential contender who won the popular vote by a multimillion margin. And they together run a well-respected global philanthropic organization that has saved millions of lives. Never mind: Their daughter, Chelsea, a Stanford and Oxford graduate, former consultant and TV correspondent, mother of two, and author of a book intended to inspire young people to change the world for the better, talked too much in her paid role on television, where she was employed primarily to talk, and is still expressing herself to a wide audience. Chelsea “had a tendency to talk a lot, and at length, not least about Chelsea,” writes T. A. Frank in Vanity Fair. “But you couldn’t interrupt, not even if you’re on TV at NBC, where she was earning $600,000 a year at the time.”

Imagine that: A woman who is being paid handsomely for voicing her insights, and you can’t even interrupt her? Unbelievable.

It’s not just Vanity Fair jumping on the never-Chelsea bandwagon. She’s a “political princess” who receives “undeserved, constant” adoration along with the rest of her family, according to Michael Sainato in the New York Observer. According to Kevin Williamson in the National Review, Chelsea is an “empty-headed, grasping, sanctimonious, risible, simpering, saccharine little twerp” and we’re only paying attention to her because Democrats love her father (“hasn’t Bill Clinton been fellated enough?” the article begins, and proceeds to christen Chelsea the “Little Creep”).

When CBS’s Norah O’Donnell asked Chelsea if she would be the next Clinton to run for president, Chelsea said no. To which CNN pundit Chris Cillizza responded, “Um, OK?” and then “no one - and I mean no one - was waiting with bated breath for Clinton to make a go or no-go decision about running for president.”

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Except I guess the woman who asked the question, which all Chelsea did was answer. What else was she supposed to say?

The Chelsea hate-fest isn’t new, but like a disturbing proportion of the critiques of her mother, Hillary Clinton, the case against Chelsea is conspicuously wrapped up in sexism. She was mocked mercilessly as a teenager, savaged for her looks and adolescent awkwardness on comedy shows and in right-wing media. Now, the idea that she tweets regularly, talks in public, and weighs in on political issues, like her recent advocacy for equal pay, is apparently enraging for some men - the fact that she talks about herself is outrageous enough, but what seems to really disturb the pundit class is that she does it in a way that they think signals political ambitions.

There is a great case against political dynasties (see the Bush family for an illustration), and a fair critique of the unearned advantages that being born into a powerful and well-connected family bring. But Chelsea isn’t running for anything or actively continuing the Clinton dynasty. She is instead a public figure trying to use her platform and her political pedigree for good - working at the Clinton Foundation, promoting issues she cares about, voicing her disagreements with the current administration. George W. Bush’s daughter Barbara does the same, but more quietly - she runs Global Health Corp, a truly excellent and effective organization. Her twin sister, Jenna Bush Hager, stays largely out of politics, but not out of the limelight - she’s a correspondent for the Today show, and she also wrote two feel-good books. Neither of them sees the kind of ire directed at Chelsea.