bestselling lifecoach refers to housekeeper who "cleans the toilets"... it doesnt go well with fans

[Demovictory9]

But in early April, Hollis, the 38-year-old author of The New York Times bestselling books “Girl, Wash Your Face” and “Girl, Stop Apologizing,” posted a video to TikTok that jarred many of her devoted fans.


She recounted that while speaking extemporaneously during a livestream, she mentioned her twice-weekly housekeeper who “cleans the toilets.” One commenter had told Hollis she was “privileged” and “unrelatable.”


“No, sis, literally everything I do in my life is to live a life that most people can’t relate to,” Hollis said, relaying her reaction to the commenter. “Literally every woman I admire in history was unrelatable.” She added a caption offering examples: Harriet Tubman, Oprah Winfrey and others.

This didn’t go over well, coming from a white woman who achieved fame in 2015 after posting a bikini photograph from Cancún, Mexico, that revealed her pregnancy stretch marks.


Some followers had already felt betrayed by Hollis and her husband and business partner, Dave Hollis — close collaborators on daily, intimate, family-focused content — after they announced last spring that they were getting a divorce.

Now, online critics began to examine Rachel Hollis’ words, gestures and history in Zapruderian detail.

Reducing a domestic worker to someone who “cleans the toilet,” said Louiza Doran, an anti-racism and anti-oppression educator, in an Instagram Live dissection of Hollis’ TikTok post, was “the most disgusting capitalistic, privileged flex that was so quick, but it said so much about how she as a human being views the power dynamic and the social hierarchy.”

Hollis, who declined to comment for this article, issued an apology, blaming her “team” for her slowness in addressing the matter. She followed up, more contritely: “I know I have disappointed so many people, myself included, and I take full accountability.”

https://www.sfgate.com/lifestyle/article/Girl-Wash-Your-Timeline-16137656.php

[KentuckyWoman]

1. Why do these types get a following?

Something I will never understand.

[Beakybird]

2. They know how to get ahead, even if they sometimes walk on heads.

[Xavier Breath]

3. I see, it was her team's fault.

Seems legit

[ZZenith]

4. "Zapruderian"

That’s actually a pretty useful word.