Girl,
watch
your
mouth.
It
all
started
when
the Girl,
Wash
Your
Face
author
posted
about
her
house
cleaner
and
it
got
increasingly
dirty.
In
a
clip
of
the
since-deleted
post
resurfaced
by
Angie
Treasure,
Hollis
referenced
an
April
2021
livestream
where
she
spoke
about
a
woman
who “cleans
the
toilets,”
noting
that “someone
commented
and
said, ‘You’re
privileged
AF’
and
I
was
like, ‘You’re
right.
I’m
super
freaking
privileged,
but
also
I
worked
my
ass
off
to
have
the
money
to
have
someone
come
twice
a
week
and
clean
my
toilets’
and
I
told
her
that.
And
then
she
said, ‘Well,
you’re
unrelatable.'”
Hollis’
response
was
to
explain
she
had
no
interest
in
being
relatable
pointing
out
that
icons
and
historical
figures
like
Harriet
Tubman, Ruth
Bader
Ginsburg, Marie
Curie
and
Oprah
Winfrey were “all
unrelatable
AF.”
Exceptwhile
selling
millions
of
copies
of
her
books
is
great,
a
revered
abolitionist
she
is
not.
Days
later,
Hollis
issued
an
Instagram
apology,
explaining, “I
know
I’ve
caused
tremendous
pain
in
mentioning
prominent
women—including
several
women
of
color—whose
struggles
and
achievements
I
can’t
possibly
understand.”
Moreover,
she
continued, “I
disregarded
the
people
whose
hard
work
doesn’t
afford
them
financial
security,
often
due
to
inherently
racist
and
biased
systems.”
Added
the
Girl,
Stop
Apologizing
author, “The
important
thing
for
me
to
do
now,
something
I
should
have
already
done,
is
honestly,
be
quiet
and
listen.”
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