This cycle repeats itself in every SJW community. The fact is, the most oppressed of the oppressed aren't actually out there doing activism. Most of them aren't educated enough to speak for themselves or don't have the time and resources to do so. Every "axis of oppression" therefore becomes a shonen-anime-style tournament to see who can be the most oppressed of the oppressed (all the while remembering the blind black wheelchair-bound 600lb 8th-grade-education impoverished trans women of Myanmar who have it worse than them). The question is whether the "more privileged" will follow the shonen-villain-redemption arc and join the heroes or be ultimately defeated. Declaring your privileges is how you admit defeat by recognizing the power of friendship to stay in the gang for one or two more seasons.
Literally a race to the bottom. The approval of these people is always contingent and the goalposts shift so quickly that it's impossible to keep up without building an entire lifestyle around it. To make a less autistic analogy, it's like the cycle of ideologues and dictators in communist states. Virgie is quickly losing relevance and she can only hang on for much longer thanks to her arrogance and insufficient apologia for her privilege -- and let's face it, due to the fact that she's getting older and out of touch and her quirky self-indulgent millennial girl schtick doesn't fly when you have to furiously google whether "yass queen" is acceptable slang or cultural appropriation every time you post.
At the same time, the infinifats need people like this to speak for them, so new ones will come along. They are too genuinely ill to participate in life or the Internet and they get less media attention because normal people are only willing to buy "acceptance" up to a point and are disgusted by infinifat bodies. Normal people hate "extremism" and are only willing to accept fats as long as they don't have to face the fact that the logical conclusion of FA is a Wall-E-style infinifat existence, so confronting them with infinifats is very bad PR. And to the smaller fats, the infinifats are props that let them get praise and attention for their brave oppression and allyship.
It reminds me of Ragen Chastain's fiancee Julianne Wotsiak -- she used to be a FA in her own right, teetering on the edge between fat and deathfat in her 20s before ballooning up to around 500 lbs (no doubt thanks to Ragen's enabling and feederism) and disappeared from the public eye entirely. Ragen, on the other hand, has managed to keep her weight relatively stable in the low 300s for the past 10 years and therefore hasn't given up yet on her whole charade despite her rapidly deteriorating fanbase that consists almost entirely of diabetic 55-year-old femynyst boomer womyn.
It'll be interesting to see whether Virgie burns out or fades away.
Edit: Lol, I just read her Ravishly article. She starts with:
It was about 80 degrees out at 7pm and I was sitting on a patio talking to my friend about the first time I realized that there was more to the discussion of size than simply lumping everyone into either “fat” or “thin.”
... and that's it. You would think this is the intro to some kind of story or that she will continue talking about this conversation, or else why would she insert details like the time, temperature and location? This friend, the patio, are not mentioned again in the post. Doesn't this woman have a graduate-level education? Does Ravishly not have any kind of editing?
