43 Infuriating Moments When Men’s Entitlement Reached Unseen Levels

Women have come too far to allow entitled men and their toxic traits to go unchecked. Sadly, bad behavior often comes out when things don't go a certain type of man's way. They're "nice" until they aren't. Thankfully, those on the receiving end have receipts - just in case no one believes that Mr. Nice Guy would ever say or do something like that.

Many of these screenshots are bound together by a common thread: confidence without self-awareness. Or as we like to call it, audacity.

These guys believe that attention is owed to them, rejection is disrespect, boundaries are negotiable, silence is a personal attack, and they are more important than any female who ever dared to place her dainty feet on this earth.

Many times, toxic texts follow a similar pattern. The conversation begins in neutral, seemingly "innocent" territory. Maybe there's even a touch of charm. But then something shifts.

Perhaps the receiver takes too long to respond, doesn't give the response the guy had hoped for, doesn't reciprocate their interest, shrugs off an advance, changes plans, or simply rejects them.

Suddenly, the energy becomes unhinged. Pressure, accusations, blame, insults, and threats. Move over communication, hello control...

There's a fine line between desiring someone and feeling entitled to them. It's dominance disguised as romance. It's when things turn toxic, and at worst, criminal.

"Patriarchy is an established framework where men have privilege, and women don’t. Historically, male experience has been the default, and women have been objectified," notes the Betrayal Trauma Recovery website. "Due to their societal status, men grow up with a sense of entitlement toward many aspects of life, including women’s bodies. The belief in their innate right to women’s attention, affection, and bodies can begin early."

When a man believes they're entitled to someone else's time, emotions, or body, their words give the game away. They can choose to swing it whichever way they please but what they really mean is "You owe me."

Kate Manne is an associate professor of philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University and is widely known for writing books about male entitlement. Manne argues that entitled men expect women to give feminine goods like intimacy, care, nurturing, and reproductive labor while not taking masculine goods like power, authority, and claims to knowledge, in return.

Male entitlement deprives women of entitlement to both "feminine-coded" and "masculine-coded" goods, says the expert. It's designed to be a win-win for men.

“This results in inequalities that range from a woman not receiving adequate care for her pain, to her not being able to take up traditionally male positions of power, to her not being granted her rightful authority to speak about subjects in which she is an expert,” Manne writes.

Many women have experienced at least one entitled man in their lifetime. Often, these guys wear a cloak of "niceness" before turning out to be plain creepy.

Freelance writer Rachel Nash once recalled how one of her clients had sent her dozens of unwelcome and intrusive messages on social media. The man then proceeded to find Nash's phone number on the internet and followed up with texts and calls.

Nash revealed that it wasn't the first male client to do so and, sadly, probably won't be the last.

"I wonder whether these men are too stupid to realise that they’re making me uncomfortable, or that they fully realise the impact of their actions but persist anyway," she wrote. "The latter is unconscionable, but I do fear that it’s the case most of the time."

When you've received or read enough of these entitled men texts, you begin to spot the red flags faster. And that's a good thing because once you can identify entitlement clearly, it becomes a lot easier to refuse it or shut it down.

But you know what's even better? Men not behaving this badly in the first place...