Simon, the examples you gave are very clear and solid examples of how white privilege and male privilege can work in the favor of people with those attributes regardless of other intersectional factors. How being White and/or male provides a benefit -- including for me.

But other intersectional factors are going to inevitably come into play. For example, while we can easily conclude that far more men than women are going to feel safer walking alone at night -- for me, that presumed "safety" often vanishes due to my autism...and I feel extremely precarious, alert, and anxious if walking alone at night due to that intersecting attribute of mine. Would I be oblivious to that privilege and feel more casual about it if I was neurotypical? Maybe. There's also the matter of how men of certain physiques are going to feel more comfortable walking alone at night. Think of what it's like for a Black or Brown man who has to be aware of his skin color even while walking alone -- and even if the neighborhood in which he happens to be traveling is considered "safe" or "affluent" by most standards. Think of what it's like for nonbinary people who aggressors would perceive as either "effeminate" or "androgynous."

Having a penis can be a privilege...until it isn't.

And, yes, the hyperwoke peanut gallery chooses to focus on race and sex (at the expense of most other intersectional attributes) because they want to selectively focus on "immutable" parts of people's lives in order to further their own narratives. They want to "dumb down" the academic discourse -- and, in the process, exclude a whole lot of other people (including many of the people whom, ironically, they would otherwise claim to *want* to include).