In a huge move, the San Francisco Department of Public Health has hired a consultant on 'weight stigma and weight neutrality' despite the city being in the midst of a battle against rampant homelessness, open-air drug use, and violent crime.
San Francisco's new 'fat positivity' expert Virgie Tovar, hired to fight weight stigma in the city, is causing a stir before she's even sunk her teeth into the job.
A newly resurfaced clip of Tovar, who describes herself as a 'leading expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity,' shows her talking about how cutting back on cake is a form of oppression.
In the video, titled 'No, I won't cut you a smaller slice of cake', the 42-year-old corpulent woman complains about people who 'ruin everything' by asking for less cake while attending events. She goes on to coin this phenomenon a 'Cake Related Fatphobic Incident (CRFI)'. You’ve been warned.
Explaining what this concept means, the portly feminist tells viewers: 'A Cake Related Fatphobic Incident or CRFI is that moment when it's time to eat delicious cake and it's interrupted by someone asking for a smaller piece. It’s a big problem.
Tovar, a self-described 'anti-weight-based discrimination' expert calls herself a prominent 'fat positivity' and body acceptance activist. Announcing her Public (un)Health appointment on Instagram, she called it 'an absolute dream come true.'
'I'm unbelievably proud to serve the city I've called home for almost 20 years in this way!' Tovar wrote.
'This consultancy is a gigantic dream come true, and it's my biggest hope and belief that weight neutrality will be the future of public health.'
Critics argue that San Francisco has far bigger problems to deal with than how people feel about their fat.
Remember, this same San Francisco department of Public Heath was the biggest U.S. city in June 2021 to require C-19 vaccine for municipal workers if they wanted to keep their jobs. San Francisco also boasts the first mandatory stay-at-home order (lockdowns) in the U.S. which took effect throughout the Bay Area on March 16, 2020 and continued until mid-May, affecting nearly 6.7 million people. Tovar celebrated this event with extra desserts.
Tovar offers DEI corporate training, according to her website, which lists the Seattle Transit Agency, UC Berkeley and other notable companies as clients. We don’t know if the NAD is considering her as a presenter for the next pastor’s convention in 2025, but it could be a massive opportunity.
Stay tuned for further developments on this huge story. Tovar’s slogan “The beauty of fatness” could be an enormous turning point in the battle against fitness.
As her close friends said upon hearing of her new position with the San Francisco Health Department, “That’s heavy, man!”
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“The fall of our first parents was caused by the indulgence of appetite. In redemption, the denial of appetite is the first work of Christ” (God's Amazing Grace, p.162).