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WOKE San Fran Hires Fat Activist To Fight Weight Stigma 1 · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  Speaker 1: San Francisco hires overweight fat activist to give guidance on
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  Speaker 1: weight stigma, wait stigma. So she's going to be giving
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  Speaker 1: people guidance on weight stigma. I wonder if this is
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  Speaker 1: a totally counterproductive waste of money.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder.
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  Speaker 1: I'm working with a team at the San Francisco Departments
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  Speaker 1: of Public Health as a consultant on weight stigma and
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  Speaker 1: weight neutrality. She needs a consultant on weight to tell
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  Speaker 1: her that she's got too much of it?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Virgie Tovar forty two is dedicated to the fight against
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  Speaker 1: weight discrimination and dieting. I think weight discrimination is when
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  Speaker 1: you're too fat to fit through the door. I think
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  Speaker 1: that that counts, right. Are you're too fat for the
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  Speaker 1: aeroplane to fight against weight discrimination and dieting? Why are
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  Speaker 1: you fighting against dieting? Exactly like what I can't.
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  Speaker 2: I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remain silent as long as they single person
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  Speaker 1: is trying to lose weight, it's trying to be healthier.
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  Speaker 2: What is that?
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  Speaker 1: Weight discrimination is that when all you can eat isn't
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  Speaker 1: really all you can eat, Like you can't actually eat
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  Speaker 1: as many deep fried prawns.
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  Speaker 2: As you want, says all you can eat.
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  Speaker 1: All right, an overweight fat activist, What reality are we
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  Speaker 1: living in where such things exist, where fat activists exists?
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  Speaker 2: This is all stuff that was just comedy.
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  Speaker 1: This has been from you know skits on SNL or
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  Speaker 1: SCTV or you know mad TV or something years ago,
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  Speaker 1: fat activist everybody would have recognized immediately that that is
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  Speaker 1: as being a joke, a joke character. But apparently this
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  Speaker 1: is all super normal now. An overweight fat activist disclosed
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  Speaker 1: that she had been hired by the City of San
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  Speaker 1: Francisco wareouse to provide guidance on the prevention of weight stigma.
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  Speaker 1: Again that's when you're too fat to fit through the door.
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  Speaker 1: On Monday, Virgie Tovar reported the news to her more
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  Speaker 1: than eighty two thousand followers on Instagram eighty two thousand
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  Speaker 1: followers on Instagram. Why this comes after California Governor Gavin
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  Speaker 1: Newsom announced the state's own version of DOGE President's elect
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's Department of Government Deficiency. So this is San Francisco,
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  Speaker 1: this is California, and they're hiring a fat activist to
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  Speaker 1: work on wait stigma. Right at the same time that
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  Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom is announcing his own version of Department of
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  Speaker 1: Government deficiency. So maybe his goal is to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of everything useful and efficient and only have stuff like
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  Speaker 1: wait stigma. I don't know, like weights fat activists, you know,
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  Speaker 1: solving the you know the riddle of the wait stigma.
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  Speaker 1: Tovar forty two wrote in the post, I'm working with
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  Speaker 1: a team at the San Francisco Department of Public Health
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  Speaker 1: as a consultant. It's on weight stigma and weight neutrality.
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  Speaker 1: What's weight neutrality? She added, I'm unbelievably proud to serve
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  Speaker 1: the city I've called home for almost twenty years in
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  Speaker 1: this way. I bet she can't believe they're actually giving
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  Speaker 1: her money. This consultancy is an absolute dream come true,
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  Speaker 1: and it's my biggest hope and belief that weight neutrality
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  Speaker 1: will be the future of public health. So what can
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  Speaker 1: this possibly mean? Weight neutrality? Is it just like it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter how fat you are? Because already it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like that, like you're the law is neutral, right,
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  Speaker 1: The law doesn't care how fat you are or how
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't care if you're anorexic, it doesn't care if
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  Speaker 1: you're morbidly obese.
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  Speaker 2: Seems to be the only.
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  Speaker 1: Way would actually really matter, right, Something tells me she
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  Speaker 1: had to buy two seats on a plane, and that's
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  Speaker 1: where all this started. Tovar, who has a master's degree
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  Speaker 1: in sexuality studies from San Francisco State University. What is
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  Speaker 1: so if she's got a degree in sexuality studies, then
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  Speaker 1: how does that How does that qualify her to do
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  Speaker 1: fat things like talk about it's good for people to
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  Speaker 1: be fat for San Francis.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really understand this.
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  Speaker 1: But she's an activist who is dedicated to the fight
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  Speaker 1: against weight discrimination and dieting. The Blaze reported she is
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  Speaker 1: the author of several books such as you have the Right,
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  Speaker 1: this is beautiful, You have the Right to Remain fat, Beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: let me just repeat that, you have the.
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  Speaker 2: Right to remain fat. You can't make this up.
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  Speaker 1: And the Self Love Revolution, Radical Body Positivity for Girls
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  Speaker 1: of Color. Okay, all right, so the book You have
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  Speaker 1: the Right to Remain Fat. I just I actually pulled
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  Speaker 1: this up earlier, and I can't help I can't stop
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  Speaker 1: laughing because it's so dumb. Let's say it's so, it's
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  Speaker 1: ironically hilarious. Sexuality studies. Let's first go to sexuality studies.
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  Speaker 2: What is that?
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  Speaker 1: Sexuality Studies provide students with knowledge about the processes and
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  Speaker 1: variations and sexual functions and reproduction, intimate relationships, sexual and
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  Speaker 1: gender role development and behavior, and the social, cultural, historical,
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  Speaker 1: and moral contexts of sex and love.
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  Speaker 2: Huh oh, a bullshit artist. Let's see what does any
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  Speaker 2: of this mean?
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  Speaker 1: None of these things ever seem to plainly mean anything, right,
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  Speaker 1: like variations and sexual functions and intimate relationships, variations and
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  Speaker 1: gender role development to be there is all just a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of abstractions, it seems to me. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: isn't a biology course, So though talking about processes and
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  Speaker 1: processes and variations in sexual functions and reproduction, there ain't
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  Speaker 1: a biology course. And I've got a feeling that biology
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  Speaker 1: is probably outlawed. It's xnay on the biology, xnay on
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  Speaker 1: the reality and courses like these, So I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what any of this actually means. Let's see the minor
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  Speaker 1: program and Queer and Trans Studies intends to delineate very
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  Speaker 1: important to delineate and analyze meanings that have been associated
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  Speaker 1: with homosexuality in various artistic, biological, cultural, educational, ethical, historical,
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  Speaker 1: and literary contexts, and to examine the related issues of
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  Speaker 1: mixed gender and cross gender roles and practices, So that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything, It's just all bullshit. So delineate and
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  Speaker 1: analyze meanings that have been associated with homosexuality and various
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  Speaker 1: blah blah blah historical literary What does any of that mean?
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  Speaker 1: What does analyze mean? I mean, I canna see like
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  Speaker 1: analyzed descriptions, but analyze meanings. None of this makes any
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  Speaker 1: sense at all. It just seems it's just made up.
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  Speaker 1: It's just made up for people with no actual expertise
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  Speaker 1: at anything to have a job because it all just
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  Speaker 1: feels made up as they go along, doesn't it right?
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  Speaker 1: This seems like pointless nonsense to me, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: that I'm absolutely certain that it is. Examine the related
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  Speaker 1: issues of mixed gender and cross gender roles and practices
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  Speaker 1: and delineating them and analyzing meanings, so absolutely nothing of
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  Speaker 1: any real value or utility whatsoever. And again, where's the
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  Speaker 1: fat part of this? Where's I don't see any fat
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  Speaker 1: in here? And shouldn't that be important? If she's gonna
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  Speaker 1: do the she's going to do what the fat stigma?
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  Speaker 1: She's a fat activist with the fat stigma. Isn't that
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't that be kind of important? She's not even qualified
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  Speaker 1: to spout made up bullshit from her up bullshit degree
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  Speaker 1: in her made up bullshit job. And that, my friends,
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  Speaker 1: is equity, Bring back stigma, bring back shame. I went
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  Speaker 1: to go so far as to say the city of
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  Speaker 1: Seattle should be hiring people to specifically shame and stigmatize
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  Speaker 1: this woman.
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  Speaker 2: Please do that. I think she'd be better off it.
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  Speaker 2: She'd be better off.
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  Speaker 1: Than what she's doing right now, which is telling people
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  Speaker 1: to be unhealthy and to die early.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: She wrote a book, though, where's that book? It's the Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you have the right to remain fat? Google books? Let's
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  Speaker 1: see feminist press that to see you and why? Super surprising?
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  Speaker 1: So let's see here. In this bold new book, Tovar
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  Speaker 1: eviscerates diet culture, proclaims the joyous possibilities of fatness. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: we should rewrite that hold on, proclaims the joyous possibilities
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  Speaker 1: of diabetes, and shows us that liberation is possible. What
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  Speaker 1: does liberation mean in any of these contexts? Like, it's
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  Speaker 1: not like liberating France from the Nazis. It's different than that,
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  Speaker 1: for sure, right, or liberating you know, like liberating Belgium, right, Like,
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  Speaker 1: it's different from that for sure, not the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: What context they use? Well, the context that use liberation
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  Speaker 1: and the left does. It doesn't seem to have any
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  Speaker 1: connection to what we oh assumed. The word liberation meant
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  Speaker 1: liberation from what? Liberation from exercise, like, liberation from from vegetables.
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  Speaker 2: What are they talking about here?
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  Speaker 1: It's all part of this aggrandizing themselves for being lazy
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  Speaker 1: and undisciplined. That's it. And look, I'm lazy and undisciplined too.
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  Speaker 1: I need to lose some weight. I mean, I'm not,
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  Speaker 1: you know, morbidly obese. I can tell you that. But
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  Speaker 1: there's not really anything glorious in what I'm doing. Right,
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  Speaker 1: need to exercise more, need to eat a little better.
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  Speaker 1: There's not a glory in that. There's nothing to be
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  Speaker 1: proud of. Right, I don't need to be liberated from
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  Speaker 1: exercising a more. I don't need to be liberated from
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  Speaker 1: exercising more. I feel better when I do it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what else can it mean? Liberation as possible? Liberation from what?
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  Speaker 1: It's not like an occupying force, right, it's liberation from standards.
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's it. Just liberation from standards, right, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what the stigmatization is about. Any standard is stigmatization
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  Speaker 1: and shame, and then that's colonialism or white supremacy or something.
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  Speaker 2: It's bad though. Anyway. I'm really tired right now. Huh uh.
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  Speaker 1: I got sweaty just walking to the door to pick
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  Speaker 1: up my to pick up the skip the dishes.
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  Speaker 2: I need more liberation. I don't know what's going on here.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think?
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  Speaker 1: Growing up as a fat girl, Virgietovar believed that her
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  Speaker 1: body was something to be fixed, and she was right.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who disabused her of that very real notion,
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  Speaker 1: but they should be ashamed of themselves. After two decades
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  Speaker 1: of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it and
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  Speaker 1: gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again.
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  Speaker 1: And what does that even mean? Trust your own body? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, if you get heart palpitations
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  Speaker 1: from walking up a flight of stairs, maybe you should
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  Speaker 1: trust that, right and say, oh, my body's trying to
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  Speaker 1: tell me something. My body's trying to tell me maybe
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  Speaker 1: I shouldn't have had that last last pound of bacon
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  Speaker 1: this morning. And it's nothing if if you smell like
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  Speaker 1: bacon all the time. You're eating too much bacon, although
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  Speaker 1: I love bacon. Trust your own body again, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what like voices in her head or voices in her
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  Speaker 1: head telling or something. No, no, you're not fat enough.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, no, no, you should be more fat. But
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's just mental illness at that point, I don't know. Ever,
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  Speaker 1: since she's been helping others do the same, Tovar is hungry,
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  Speaker 1: you bet she is. Tovar is hungry for a world
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  Speaker 1: where body are valued equally. That's never going to happen, Like,
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  Speaker 1: that's never Like, what are you talking about beauty standards?
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  Speaker 2: Sorry?
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  Speaker 1: I just were not all born equally that way. I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't born Brad Pitt. Just the way it is, right.
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  Speaker 1: I have to live with that, okay, I have to
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  Speaker 1: live with not being Robert Redford. All right, It's just.
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  Speaker 2: The way it is.
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  Speaker 1: Does it mean the world is wrong? Does it mean
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  Speaker 1: that nature is wrong? That's just the way it is.
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  Speaker 1: You know, what you can do is try to maximize
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  Speaker 1: what you've got. And you know what, for the vast
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  Speaker 1: majority of people, that works out just fine, works out,
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  Speaker 1: just great, right.
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  Speaker 2: Tuvar is hungry for a world where.
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  Speaker 1: Bodies are valued equally she talking about cannibalism there, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. She is hungry. Food is free from moral judgment?
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  Speaker 1: Is it really a moral judgment though? When you just say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you shouldn't gulp down that two liters of coke? Like,
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  Speaker 1: is that moral judgment or is it just common sense?
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  Speaker 1: And you can jiggle through life with respect? Well, you
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  Speaker 1: can tell yourself that's what you're doing. In concise and
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  Speaker 1: candid language, she delves into unlearning fat phobia, unlearning fat phobia,
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  Speaker 1: dismantling sexist notions of fashion. It's all things she has
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  Speaker 1: problems with here and how to reject diet culture's greatest
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  Speaker 1: lie that fat people need to wait, Okay, we don't
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  Speaker 1: need to see see any more of this. It's all
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  Speaker 1: just self serving, self delusional, self delusional, gibberish and nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: This is all just there to excuse people indulging their
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  Speaker 1: worst selves. That's it. It's all just narcissism and delusion. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. This is just dumb. It's just also stupid.
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  Speaker 1: You can't believe it's actually real, Like that is citied
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  Speaker 1: at San Francisco would hire somebody to just spout this
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  Speaker 1: self serving gibberish, counterpre deductive for everybody, including her, including
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  Speaker 1: herself gibberish.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: Tovar posted on her Instagram that in recent years she
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  Speaker 1: has gone no contact with her family.
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  Speaker 2: It's the cult.
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  Speaker 1: It's the cult, no contact with anybody who's not already
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  Speaker 1: in the cult. Her page is filled with content about
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  Speaker 1: how to throw as size inclusive holiday parties. But really
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  Speaker 1: it all comes down to, I mean, the whole thing,
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  Speaker 1: this whole discipline that she's engaged in, she's got her
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  Speaker 1: degree with and everything, all of it is just I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to do stuff like all of it is well,
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  Speaker 1: I just I don't want to go for a walk.
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  Speaker 1: The whole thing is just nah, I do feel like
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  Speaker 1: having that second leader of ice cream. That's the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's the whole fat studies thing. And that's not even
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  Speaker 1: her thing. By the way, she has a degree in
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  Speaker 1: what sexuality studies, although I'm sure that most of the
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  Speaker 1: people involved in that with sexuality studies are also fat,
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  Speaker 1: so maybe that's how it works. Anyway, pretty dumb. Did
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  Speaker 1: I have anything written down for this one?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she said it's a dream come true? Right, she
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  Speaker 1: said it was a said it was a dream come
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  Speaker 1: true to get this job, right, so getting paid for
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  Speaker 1: being lazy and just making it up as she goes along,
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  Speaker 1: which is what all of the that's what all of
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  Speaker 1: these grievance people do, the grievance studies. It's all just
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  Speaker 1: making it up as you go along, as long as
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  Speaker 1: it feels like it's going in a progressive direction, and
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  Speaker 1: nothing in it suggests that you should take any personal
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  Speaker 1: responsibility whatsoever. That's why it's so bad for Western civilization.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, everything the modern left does is destructive to
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  Speaker 1: individuals and then in turn to society. Because you've got
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of dysfunctional individuals making up your society. It's
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  Speaker 1: not good. I mean, what, here's it. I here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: Complain about healthcare costs?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: How about this? How about fat getting rid of fat stigma?
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  Speaker 1: And wait, newrality, how about that? Because obesity, especially morbid obesity,
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  Speaker 1: is very expensive. It costs a lot of money for
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  Speaker 1: medical care because you're going to need a lot of it. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: That's all I'm going to say about that. Please like,
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