By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-19 20:00:56 | Updated at 2024-12-27 19:23:17
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‘Fat positivity’ expert hired by San Francisco Dept. of Health to consult on ‘weight stigma’
New York Post ^ | December 18, 2024 | Yael Halon
Posted on 12/19/2024 11:48:35 AM PST by Vendome
The San Francisco Department of Public Health has hired a self-described “anti-weight-based discrimination” expert to consult on “weight stigma and weight neutrality.”
Virgie Tovar, the author of ‘You Have the Right to Remain Fat” and other published works on “fat positivity and body acceptance” announced on her Instagram Monday that she was hired to consult for the department, calling the collaboration an “absolute dream come true.”
“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’s website lists her as a ”plus-size Latina author, lecturer, and leading expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity with over a decade of experience.”
Virgie Tovar is teaming up with the San Francisco Dept. of Public Health to consult on “weight stigma.”Getty Images for Bentonville Film FestivalShe is a contributor for Forbes, where she covers stories on the “plus size market.”
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1 posted on 12/19/2024 11:48:35 AM PST by Vendome
To: Vendome
Be fat all you want. But YOU pay for the extra plane seat and for all the health issues being a fatty brings along with it.
2 posted on 12/19/2024 11:50:00 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
To: Vendome
That’s better than their original idea of Fentanyl Positiviity.
3 posted on 12/19/2024 11:50:16 AM PST by posterchild
To: Organic Panic
That’s right. I see no reason to pay for someone else’s irresponsible lifestyle choices.
4 posted on 12/19/2024 11:51:34 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: posterchild
At least no one is dying of overdoses.
5 posted on 12/19/2024 11:52:04 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: Vendome
The San Francisco Department of Public Health has hired a self-described “anti-weight-based discrimination” expert
Fine. You also get her health care bills, which will be many.
6 posted on 12/19/2024 11:52:29 AM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
To: Vendome
What’s it pay? I could be a fat specialist. I mean, it’s just another fake invented profession. Like DEI specialist. Just take a couple of worthless college classes and you to can be a “soft scientist.”
“Soft science” is just another term for “charlatanism.”
7 posted on 12/19/2024 11:53:18 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: Vendome
You also have the right to croak, early.
8 posted on 12/19/2024 11:55:51 AM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
To: Vendome
There should be a stigma. Being fat is bad for you.
9 posted on 12/19/2024 11:56:31 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
To: brownsfan
10 posted on 12/19/2024 11:57:08 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: bigbob
And that is on the victims.
11 posted on 12/19/2024 11:57:34 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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