@lelapaletute
HipHop, I think all men are susceptible to it to a degree, and i think it comes from cultural norms and upbringing. Boys and men are raised believing their wants matter and that they are entitled to be happy in a way not many girls are - in fact girls are trained the opposite, that to be good and loveable they should put themselves last. So it can seem to women that men are being stunningly selfish and manipulative, because rather than biting their tongues and going without and bending over backwards to accommodate others, they say what they want and aren't in the least embarrassed to do what it takes to get it,up to and including taking advantage of the fact the women in their lives are trained to feel responsible for their happiness. So the two dynamics play very well together to keep a lot of women living lives of quiet desperation and self sacrifice, and a lot of men quite perfectly satisfied thank you, without ever thinking they'd a done anything more than be assertive. Thank you the patriarchy!
Absolutely brilliant post! Better than I could EVER have put it. And you are absolutely right. To be fair, I guess some men expecting their own way, (over and above their wife and children,) and women taking it and tolerating it, is not actually the fault of the men, as it is (often) how they have been raised.
HOWEVER, even though some men can't always help this entitled attitude, as it's how they've been raised, what IS the fault of these men (and what really effing grates on me,) is how they sulk and go all passive aggressive when they don't get their own way. Sometimes dragging a snide and snarky mood out for several days to 'punish' the woman for 'stopping' them from getting their own way.
THAT fucks me right off. 
I know not all men are awful, and I don't want to start man bashing, as we all have our flaws. But the few posters on here who are trying to deny that some men think their wants and needs are more important than that of their wife and children, and also trying to deny that some men can be being passive aggressive and controlling if they don't get their own way, are deluded, OR have never been in the position of being in a relationship with a man like this.
I know not saying ALL men are like this, but a bloody good amount of them are! And it's insulting to the women who have been on the receiving end of their childish, emotionally abusive, passive aggressive sulks and churlish behaviour, to say 'put yer feet up and get over yerself!'
I'm not gonna lie, my DH acts like this too occasionally, but I scream irrationally at him (sometimes!) and he snaps out of it because he is scared of my rants. 
(Anyway, if he pisses me off too royally, he won't get a shag, his ironing done, or his dinner cooked.)
Not helping the sisterhood am I?! 