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Flashback - San Francisco Weight Czar Virgie Tovar on Why Eating Less Cake Is Oppression

‘A Cake Related Fatphobic Incident — or CRFI for short — is that moment when it’s time to eat delicious cake, and an otherwise joyous experience gets ruined by a moralizing impulse’
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TOVAR: “CRFIs typically happen in environments where there are primarily, or exclusively, women. Women are disproportionately negatively affected by diet culture because diet culture maps onto sexism. Like many parts of diet culture, there is a significant performance component. You have to others that you are being good. Controlling how much you eat is part of what it means to be a quote, 'good woman.' This kind of behavior is a way for people to keep other people in check through food, moralizing, surveillance, and policing. These are the mechanisms that are at the core of diet culture and weight control. The idea that you can position yourself as superior to others through self-control and self-denial is super sexist. CRFIs have a history of creating a hierarchy among women and ultimately in maintaining misogynist expectations.”

 

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