Activists and users of social networks criticized the doctor Alberto Cormillot for expressions he had during a television program, in which he referred to “the chubby woman from the office”, considering that it is about said “fat-haters” who contribute to the “discrimination and stigmatization of fat people”.
“She is perhaps the person who has contributed the most in Argentina to the stigmatization and discrimination of fat people,” said the group Mujeres que No Fue Tapa (MQNFT) through social networks, which seeks to “hack” the reproduction of stereotypes. of gender and mandates of mass culture.
During the program “La Puta Ama” last Tuesday, hosted by actress Florencia Peña on América TV, Cormillot referred to “the chubby girl in the office.”
“‘The office chubby’ are all of us who no longer want to be touched by co-workers or anyone, all of us who do not want to do those scam diets”collective Women who were not cover
“The example I give is ‘the chubby girl from the office’. If you are a girl who weighs 120, 130 in the office, very possibly if your friends put their hands on you they will put you as a good partner. If you lose 30, 40 kilos and they stop putting their hands on you like a good companion and they put their hands on you with pretense”, said the nutritionist.
In this context, from MQNFT they also argued that the doctor builds and reinforces “the culture of diets, hunger, the restriction that has done so much damage, especially to women.”
In this sense, they pointed out: “‘The chubby girl from the office’ are all of us who no longer want to be touched by co-workers or anyone else, all of us who do not want to do those scam diets, we are all of us who have already learned that we do not you have to spend your life depriving yourself of the pleasure of food for them to love us”.
The journalist Marcela Ojeda also targeted the nutrition specialist. “With all my very personal story about my men who have been touched, with consent and enjoyment”, she discredited the idea that “fat people are not wanted and we do not have the right to enjoy our sexualities”.
In addition, he shared an experience that shows the situations that fat people experience throughout their lives. “I am 45 years old and when I was 12 I went to a hospital and, as there was no scale for someone of my age/weight, they took me to the kitchen and put me on a scale. Today there are other situations in medicine that continue to be extremely violent. corporation of which AC (Alberto Cormillot) is a part”.
Fat people are not wanted, nor do we have the right to enjoy our sexualities and what has been said also makes it clear that who could believe you if the time comes when you denounce a situation of sexual violence? NO ONE. That speech has been validated for years
– Maͣrͬcͨeͤlaͣ Ojeͤdͩaͣ (@Marcelitaojeda) August 25, 2022
Along the same lines, through a video on the social network TikTok, the model Mar Tarrés showed a fragment of Cormillot’s statements and underlined: “Here the ‘chubby woman from the office’ picks up a tile and a bun comes out.”
“Enough of retrograde beliefs that fat women cannot like us and that to be loved and accepted we have to ‘fit’ a stereotype of beauty,” she shared from her Instagram account.
Critics also pointed out that the sayings promote “the other’s desirability as something to aspire to.”
“He puts the male gaze as validation at the center of his misogynistic and fat-phobic discourse”Florence Freijo
“He puts the male gaze as validation at the center of his misogynistic and fat-phobic discourse. At the same time, he says that fat women cannot be desired or loved and makes it natural for them to touch you in the office with sexual intent,” warned the political scientist and writer Florence Freijo.
After the criticism, the doctor apologized through his social networks: “Sorry! I gave an old example !!!!! I was betrayed by having heard it, without sharing it, hundreds of times. The hand thing was symbolic! Sorry yes someone got upset!!!!!”
