ENTITLED

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I do not get this insult at all. It makes no sense ' 'soo entitled' ' how very entitled you are'
Just the words 'very entitled' do not roll of the tongue like a good insult should and by definition of the word it makes little to no sense

Am I missing something key here? Or this just a MN trend?

This is not an AIBU I posted here because this is where I see the word entitled being thrown around the most.

it's not right though is it - if you are entitled, then you are allowed / due it

i am entitled to think that way = perfectly within my rights

you have a sense of entitlement = over inflated sense of what is reasonable to expect

surely?

coffee i think if i called somebody 'entitled' in real life they would look at me like i had just grew a 10 foot cock on my head, wondering what the bloody hell i'm talking about

I am a grammar Nazi and this makes steam come out of my ears.

"Misplaced sense of entitlement", please.

"Entitled" usually means the opposite of what the poster is trying to say.

Its rather over used on MN but there is a vicious Socialist coterie on MN who would like to see a more NORTH Korea or Collective Communist set up, meaning, anyone who suggests almost anything are....you guessed it

Entitled because we should all be sacrificing for the good of the masses...in Stalin esq way....

I think perhaps it's MN shorthand then.

IRL I would rarely use the phrase sense of entitlement, but I would use the whole phrase if using it.

On MN though I just seem to 'know' that this is what people mean when they say 'entitled'.

I have heard it as an insult IRL too, it's a good one for people being a bit grabby and precious, but in general here it gets used for anyone who dares want anything, and won't just quietly settle for the crap noone else wants.

I'm going to start using 'unhinged', I shall use it to replace 'bonkers' or 'batshit crazy'. It sounds like a much more grown up way of saying it.

Oh yes, and OW are just victims of men who want to play away and all the fault lies with the man. That suggesting a woman wanting to have sex with a married man makes her a bit of a cowbag, is not acceptable. She's done nothing wrong you see. Never judge her, just him.

In your case, I would say you'd be perfectly reasonable to make it clear to her to back the fuck off, unless your chosen method to do that is to piss in a big circle around your DH to mark out your territory, in which case I might tilt my head and suggest to someone else that you are a little unhinged (but not directly to you, because woman who piss around people in public aren't to be messed with).

"I like 'entitled'. It's just shorthand for 'sense of entitlement' isn't it?"

Yes that's how I think of it.

I agree with stubbornstains it doesn't make sense used like that, but I know what it is meant to mean so I shall let it go

Officer

I'm with you on 'disingenuous'. Such a perfect word...

mary

wise move, i don't take too kindly to women interupting me whilst marking my territory one wrong move and you may find yourself 'marked'

I've always known the adage to be "an inflated sense of entitlement" much like "delusions of grandeur" I quite like its sniffy post-war middle-class bosom hoikiness.

Mary Westmacott God I would love to see someone pull their pants down and piss around their DH in a big circle (before I ran away v. fast ).

As an ex single mum in a world of couples I have seen women pretty much do everything but that .

"I like 'entitled'. It's just shorthand for 'sense of entitlement' isn't it?"

yeah but then its giving the word entitled two different definitons. which as it happens are completely opposite and contradict each other.

I've said unhinged in real life for years. It really upsets some people on here, which only encourages me.

(and I should say, before I get jumped on, that I never flirted with other womens' husbands. Just, y'know, spoke to them. At social events).

It's not just Mumsnet . I was accused of being entitled on DS for saying I didn't like the rape storyline in Downton Abbey. Seriously, apparently me and other viewers who didn't like it were very self entitled to think we could dictate the storylines .

I appreciated the glue insult at the time, but to my mind The Lost Boys did that joke much better.

Entitled is great but overused. And I've seen a lot of posters recently who seem to misunderstand the use of it, possibly wilfully. It's hardly entitled to expect or hope for something completely everyday or normal (for a developed first-world country).

stubbornstains

I've tried walking from the bathroom to bedroom ( needed loo roll ) with my knickers round my ankles... Its not easy. I think i would fall flat on my back trying to do that in circles. which would be unfortunate for anyone else in the splash zone

stubborn how do you feel about the misuse of the word 'empowered'?

I quietly hate the people who say it and just know they also say: 'Yay! You go girlfriend!'

oh and worth remembering on AIBU - there's a whole section of MN who really believe that as a woman, and specifically a woman who's had children, you no longer have the right to want anything for yourself. You can only want things for your DCs and DP/H or parents, but not if that might be at the expense of someone else.

You must never, ever put what you want first. You must never, ever suggest that anyone thinks about you and what would make you happy, your job as a female parent is to make sure the rest of the extended family are happy with no one making effort or spending money for you.

(I was flamed for daring to ask for handbag suggestions around the £800 mark in S&B when I was left some money to buy something for myself by someone who loved handbags. Apparently I should have bought a bench in a park or a piece of art for the house. It wasn't the spending the money on something frivolous and non-practical that seemed to get so many people upset, it was spending the money on something frivolous that was just for me that was all sorts of wrong.)

If anyone were to ask me whether I'm high, I'd have to say no, I'm hello...

Apart from that - this is MN, so I can be as entitled, grabby, precious and PFB as I want until I decide to LTB. Though I'm more likely to BLT, come to think of it.

And at being flamed over wanting a nice handbag, Mary. I now realise how entitled I was for asking DH to buy me a gorgeous new digital camera the other day...

mary i have noticed this too.

I better not mention how i had the cheek to buy myself a new top and jeans the other day then.. maybe i should of used that money on some tat to clutter up my windowsil with.

Under no circumstances may you expect anyone to buy you a wedding present.

And along with being entitled it's just a 'first world problem' so it doesn't matter.

I was once told being annoyed at having my bins moved a day early and therefore having to leave my 2 small children unsupervised in the house while I traipse out with several bags of rubbish was a first world problem. Yep, because in the first world unsupervised very small children never ever hurt themselves and die. That only happens in the 3rd world (thankfully my children never did hurt themselves, but the potential was there because of an interfering neighbour)