But seriously folks, @aahales is right that this comes from a long history.
https://twitter.com/aahales/status/1379513797535100934
Female influencers, particularly religious ones, walk this line of "effortless perfection." They must appear to be just 1-2 steps ahead of their followers but not so far ahead as to make their lives unattainable.
They are trading in the hope that you, too, could be like them one day. They are selling goddess-hood to mere mortals who hope to one day achieve it. But achieving it must remain achievable.
Hollis' error was simply pulling the curtain back a smidge too far. She shattered the myth that everyone had agreed to.
In many ways, this is the same myth of self-creation that permeates too much of women's discipleship. Becoming the Prov 31 woman is generally not about gaining wisdom so much as becoming a kind of goddess.
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