San Francisco’s Department of Public Health has tapped fat activist Virgie Tovar as the liberal city’s “weight stigma” czar.
Tovar, author of “You Have the Right to Remain Fat” and a “DEI” professional, announced the position on her Instagram account on Monday.
“I’m UNBELIEVABLY proud to serve the city I’ve called home for almost 20 years in this way!” she wrote. “This consultancy is an absolute dream come true, and it’s my biggest hope and belief that weight neutrality will be the future of public health.”
Tovar describes herself as a “leading expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity with over a decade of experience,” according to her website, which also details her “DEI,” or “diversity, equity, and inclusion” work.
“Virgie’s corporate trainings focus on creating a non-judgmental environment where professionals can build awareness, vocabulary and best practices aimed at decreasing occupational weight-based discrimination,” the DEI section of Tovar’s website reads. “She combines her academic background, professional expertise and personal lived experience to design virtual and in-person experiences that open up curiosity, empathy, and empowerment.”
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Some of her former clients included “the Seattle Transit Agency, UC Berkeley, Everybody Gym, and affinity spaces within Square and Waymo.” Tovar has also partnered with leading beauty brand Dove to discuss issues like “fat liberation.”
In a “#DovePartner” video, for example, Tovar says examples of “fat liberation” are “putting as much butter” as she wants on her toast, “wearing a bikini to the beach,” and children never being put on diets.
Tovar is against so-called diet culture for the obese, rejects Ozempic, and believes that “no one has to be healthy.”
“No one has to be healthy,” she said on a podcast. “Nobody owes anybody that.”
“No matter what size you are, you don’t owe anybody else your health,” the activist added after comparing being disabled to being obese. “In an ideal world, there wouldn’t be health-based gatekeeping at all.”
“No one has to be healthy” – Virgie Tovar, Weight Czar for SF Health Department pic.twitter.com/KnODC56iAz
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 19, 2024
In a viral video narrated by Tovar, she explains why it’s “fatphobic” to ask for a small piece of cake at a party.
“And then it comes time to cut the cake and someone decides to ruin everything,” Tovar says in the video. “A cake-related fatphobic incident, or ‘CRFI,’ is that moment when it’s time to eat delicious cake and it’s interrupted by a moralizing impulse.”
“Inevitably, there’s always someone at the party who has to declare publicly that their slice is too large, and that the person who’s cutting the cake — almost invariably a woman — must do some disproportionate amount of labor to fulfill their need to feel superior.”
Looking at such “incidents” through a “feminist” lens, Tovar argues that it’s also anti-feminist to ask for a small cake slice.
San Francisco Weight Czar Virgie Tovar on why eating less cake is oppression: pic.twitter.com/3tfliIKnID
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 19, 2024
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San Francisco’s Department of Public Health has tapped fat activist Virgie Tovar as the liberal city’s “weight stigma” czar.
Tovar, author of “You Have the Right to Remain Fat” and a “DEI” professional, announced the position on her Instagram account on Monday.
“I’m UNBELIEVABLY proud to serve the city I’ve called home for almost 20 years in this way!” she wrote. “This consultancy is an absolute dream come true, and it’s my biggest hope and belief that weight neutrality will be the future of public health.”
Tovar describes herself as a “leading expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity with over a decade of experience,” according to her website, which also details her “DEI,” or “diversity, equity, and inclusion” work.
“Virgie’s corporate trainings focus on creating a non-judgmental environment where professionals can build awareness, vocabulary and best practices aimed at decreasing occupational weight-based discrimination,” the DEI section of Tovar’s website reads. “She combines her academic background, professional expertise and personal lived experience to design virtual and in-person experiences that open up curiosity, empathy, and empowerment.”
CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
Some of her former clients included “the Seattle Transit Agency, UC Berkeley, Everybody Gym, and affinity spaces within Square and Waymo.” Tovar has also partnered with leading beauty brand Dove to discuss issues like “fat liberation.”
In a “#DovePartner” video, for example, Tovar says examples of “fat liberation” are “putting as much butter” as she wants on her toast, “wearing a bikini to the beach,” and children never being put on diets.
Tovar is against so-called diet culture for the obese, rejects Ozempic, and believes that “no one has to be healthy.”
“No one has to be healthy,” she said on a podcast. “Nobody owes anybody that.”
“No matter what size you are, you don’t owe anybody else your health,” the activist added after comparing being disabled to being obese. “In an ideal world, there wouldn’t be health-based gatekeeping at all.”
“No one has to be healthy” – Virgie Tovar, Weight Czar for SF Health Department pic.twitter.com/KnODC56iAz
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 19, 2024
In a viral video narrated by Tovar, she explains why it’s “fatphobic” to ask for a small piece of cake at a party.
“And then it comes time to cut the cake and someone decides to ruin everything,” Tovar says in the video. “A cake-related fatphobic incident, or ‘CRFI,’ is that moment when it’s time to eat delicious cake and it’s interrupted by a moralizing impulse.”
“Inevitably, there’s always someone at the party who has to declare publicly that their slice is too large, and that the person who’s cutting the cake — almost invariably a woman — must do some disproportionate amount of labor to fulfill their need to feel superior.”
Looking at such “incidents” through a “feminist” lens, Tovar argues that it’s also anti-feminist to ask for a small cake slice.
San Francisco Weight Czar Virgie Tovar on why eating less cake is oppression: pic.twitter.com/3tfliIKnID
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 19, 2024
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