![]() ![]() That level of activism is certainly unrelatable in many remarkable ways, not least of all to someone like Hollis. It’s another to invoke someone like Tubman - a Black woman born into slavery who dedicated most of her life to rescuing others along the same Underground Railroad she used. It’s one thing to cast figures like Oprah and the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as aspirational role models. If it were, maybe Hollis’ cleaner wouldn’t have to clean houses for money.Īnd that’s ignoring what seems to have really drawn the most online criticism. ![]() The line between Hollis being a hard worker and being someone who can afford to have her house cleaned is not as straight and direct as she might like to think. They were talking about a lifestyle that allowed to her to hire someone else to clean the house. Hollis went on to say that the women she admires most in history were “unrelatable” and said that if most people could relate to her life “I’m doing it wrong.” In the comments on the Instagram post, Hollis wrote “Harriet Tubman, RBG, Marie Curie, Oprah Winfrey, Amelia Earhart, Frida Khalo, Malala Yousafzai, Wu Zetian… all Unrelatable AF.”Ī post shared by Rachel Hollis a lot going on here including, primarily, what feels like a deliberate misunderstanding of what people mean by “relatable.” The commenters saying they couldn’t relate to Hollis weren’t talking about her ambition or her work ethic. “Literally everything I do in my life is to a live a life that most people can’t relate to. Hollis acknowledged her privilege but also defended herself, saying she’d worked hard to be able to hire someone to clean her house, before going on a long tear about why she doesn’t want to be “relatable.” It all started last week, when Hollis posted a video to TikTok responding to a commenter who’d noted that Hollis was “privileged” and “unrelatable” for employing a house cleaner. For example, drawing a comparison between herself and legendary abolitionist Harriet Tubman because she …has a house cleaner? Hollis built her career off a bestseller called Girl, Stop Apologizing, and her public career has given her plenty of opportunities to live that mantra out - even when an apology or two might be in order. Rachel Hollis is a very successful author whose career has largely glanced off a surprising number of messes, from theological shortcuts to accusations of plagiarism. Today’s post is our tenth most shared article of the year. Some of these stories are encouraging, some are infuriating and some are just weird, but hopefully all of them help illuminate a different side of God’s Kingdom and the people in it. ![]() EDITOR’S NOTE: We’ll be sharing one of our top ten most popular posts of 2021 every day for the rest of the year. ![]()
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