Oppression is seen as a currency by those who feel that things which are done to help people with various issues (usually after years of lobbying, fundraising, letter writing, demos etc) as a threat.
I have never seen a feminist, which is the area I am most familiar with, say that White boys from lower income families shouldn't be supported.
They are however often raised by people who have no interest in helping working class white boys, as a reason that it's not fair that girls etc etc get extra 'attention'.
I saw this at work. I mean there are many examples eg men getting women only sessions shut down at pools. They say it's sexist. But they don't want a men only session (which I can't imagine women would have a problem with). They just don't want women to have them.
At work. Male dominated sector. Pay gap 40% plus. New womens network. First action, change name to gender network to support all genders. First meeting. Beforehand. Male colleague banging on about 'paying for hang gliding lessons for one armed Muslim women. Guest speaker was a sportswoman who had got a good turnout (like my colleague) because she'd been a competitor at international level. She said she'd never done anything like this before but felt strongly. Talked about the 'banter' when young. How she put up with all sorts of stuff and now she is older and looks back thinks, wow that was awful. Said it was a youth 'cool girl' thing and she got it now. How she would have distanced herself from feminism. How she was naive. How her opportunities after stepping back from competition were totally different to men who hadn't won as many prizes. Etc.
Second question from the floor, from a woman, was, aren't we in danger of discriminating against white men. This is in a company with hardly any non white people and a 40% plus pay gap. With hardly any 'starter' or back office type jobs (the usual pay gap explanation).
Second question was another women. She said 'I see the CEO is here what does he think'. So he stood up and, I shit you not, stood in front of the sportswoman and took the floor. Said he'd realised things needed doing since he had daughters...
Sorry stream of consciousness. But that's what it looks like. Lip service and a load of resentment from men who haven't a clue and the women facilitating them.
I applied for the women's network btw when it was setting up. I said I was passionate about women's issues and for the workplace things like maternity discrimination, presenteeism were issues. They said I didn't sound like a good fit. So there you go.