Voting is just about to close for the 2017 Webby Awards, and as Twitchy reported, the “Shout Your Abortion” website is in a tight two-way race to win an award in the activism category. The site exists as a clearinghouse for women to speak openly about their abortions without shame or judgment and express their gratitude for the procedure.
In that context, it’s awfully strange that Chelsea Clinton, whose mother’s campaign was inseparably attached to Cecile Richards and Planned Parenthood, would allow an essay of hers to be discussed in a magazine that would post a shameless guilt trigger like this to social media:
💕 💕 💕 pic.twitter.com/cjwV9Xiwt0
— Fit Pregnancy (@fitpregnancy) April 19, 2017
Wow … “life inside of you”? What a disgusting and patriarchal sentiment that normalizes motherhood and elevates a clump of cells to personhood. And yet, Chelsea’s recent essay (when does she sleep!) on breastfeeding was featured Wednesday by Fit Pregnancy.
.@ChelseaClinton makes an essential point about breastfeeding in recent essay https://t.co/CEfmjA2BQU pic.twitter.com/RkWkBrdOgS
— Fit Pregnancy (@fitpregnancy) April 19, 2017
At the rate Chelsea Clinton's getting media, SOLDIER OF FORTUNE will have a cover article on her operations in Angola
— David Hines (@hradzka) April 20, 2017
Someone’s working on it as we speak. But, as Mollie Hemingway wondered, isn’t it kind of weird that we’re not supposed to notice Operation Chelsea at work?
Kind of weird for media outlets to participate in the Chelsea Clinton PR campaign without acknowledging it, much less scrutinizing it.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) April 20, 2017
@MZHemingway It bugs me too. Everything about feels really staged :/
— 42believer (@42believer) April 20, 2017
@MZHemingway and subtle too!
— quo usque (@luvaderren) April 20, 2017
@MZHemingway Everything Clinton is weird.
— Vicky Beal (@sakimasse) April 20, 2017
@MZHemingway Doesn't seem weird to me. Unfortunately.
— D B Wharton (@dbwharto) April 20, 2017
@MZHemingway Not weird lately
— John Phipps (@IntellectShorty) April 20, 2017
@MZHemingway Not weird in the least. For those who support her, it must feel as natural and "right" as eating and sleeping.
— Anthony S. (@mediascaper) April 20, 2017
@MZHemingway @AriFleischer Kinda business as usual, actually
— Craig Fiebig (@fiebinator) April 20, 2017
@MZHemingway only weird if they are doing it for free. It makes total sense if you assume its just paid advertisement
— PhilsGoodman 🇺🇸 (@TroyLynch8) April 20, 2017
@MZHemingway Curious, do you actually think it is organic, or just an updated version of payola?
— Joe Matthew (@KoenigJojo) April 20, 2017
@MZHemingway If they acknowledged it, then they'd sacrifice their ability to claim that it's an organic movement reflecting Chelsea's genuine popularity
— Rugged Indivisualist (@RIndivisualist) April 20, 2017
@MZHemingway I wouldn't say weird, I think the word you're looking for is predictable. Media outlets have a Pavlovian response to the name, can't help it
— [email protected] Barnard (@dranrabmatt) April 20, 2017
@MZHemingway She is a recognizable brand so good clickbait.
— BpStucky (@BpStucky) April 20, 2017
@MZHemingway It's like, no matter what needs to happen, they want a Clinton (any Clinton) back in the White House.
— Jenna (@jennabean) April 20, 2017
@MZHemingway It's part of the post election loss psychosis just like the Russian conspiracy theories.
— Jay Stephenson (@jaypsteve) April 20, 2017
@MZHemingway Chelsea needs to run as fast as she can and find her own life. If she doesn't she is on a path to disappointment and frustration No charisma
— Dan Singer (@DanDansinger) April 20, 2017
