And all these people are not really so horrible, it's just they have been socialized and conditioned in this.
Quick version:
Told a story awhile back where one of my Dad's friends, a very respected guy in his community, met a younger woman and he thinks so highly of me, he said you two should meet. I am not really interested, but decide to call and just say look, you're new in this city, consider me a friend, lets have a coffee sometime.
we go back and forth and for whatever reasons, we never meet up, but I do ask her twice, and I just kind of let it go, because she was kinda playing the "try harder" game. She texts me one morning ranting at me, that she's the prize, she's tired of being treated like this by men, and I am irritated, but mostly feel sorry for her, because we have never even met. And she has all this negative feelings about such a small thing.
anyway, that's that mixture of entitlement, ego, intolerance, grandiosity, expectations, that I was referring to. Also, an inability to be vulnerable. This is someone also who like went to an IVY LEAGUE school and probably makes 150.