Hi, I was looking at what is going on on Ghazi and there is a submission with the title "Once Again, Mass Shooter Tries to Pin the Blame on Women Not Wanting to Date Him".

One of the commenters (top comment) said.

We have come to the point where the availability and ownership of women by men is a cause for terrorism. I can't wrap my head around the monstrosity of the thought.

This provoked me to create this submission since I too can't wrap my mind around the monstrosity of the thought, although probably for completely different reason.

The idea of male entitlement isn't anything alien to intersectional feminists here or in AGG and it was used multiple times as an argument.

Disclaimer: I'm not a psychology or psychiatry expert.

From my point of view what happens is that someone, typically a man, commits extended suicide and this then gets picked up by feminists. There are now two cases relevant to the idea of "male entitlement" I know of.

First one was Elliot Rodger who directly stated that he can't deal with his problem of being unable to find GF and have sex. He described himself as good guy and complained that dumb girls are hanging out with assholes. What modern feminists call "male entitlement" was his sole reason for killing 6 people (4 men and 2 women) and himself. (Immediately modern feminists jumped on this and framed him as MRA scarecrow even though he has never argued for men's rights or spouted anti-feminist rhetoric.)

Second one was Roseburg shooter Chris Harper-Mercer who simply complained in his writings about not having a girlfriend.

Officials say Mercer had struggled with mental health problems for some time and left behind a typed statement several pages long in which he indicated he felt lonely and was inspired by previous mass killings.
The shooter also appeared obsessed with guns and religion and had leanings toward white supremacy. "He didn't have a girlfriend and he was upset about that," The New York Times quoted an unnamed senior law enforcement official as saying.
"He comes across thinking of himself as a loser," the official told the paper.
"He did not like his lot in life, and it seemed like nothing was going right for him."

(now you can look at how the Jezebel article submitted to Ghazi frames it)

In my opinion, the idea of "male entitlement" twists the whole situation upside down. It states that men think women owe them attention/relationship/sex and therefore men become violent when they don't get what they consider rightfully theirs. Not only do I think this is wrong, I also think this comes from viewpoint devoid of any empathy, viewpoint of misandry and persecution complex. I'm convinced it's both hostile and potentially harmful to men. It takes someone who feels lonely, someone who envies others their "normal" social lives, someone who is convinced they are doing something wrong and don't know what and then it says the problem is actually in their beliefs about women. Here it goes full feminist theory about how are women perceived in society as objects to own etc, etc.

I could understand if this argument was used on rapists. Dehumanizing victim by reducing them to object and feeling entitled to their body does actually make some sense to me. But suicides (which are conveniently ignored when it comes to the idea of "male entitlement") and extended suicides (like the two cases described above) are not caused by misogynistic Patriarchy. I don't want to go on in the topic area of causes of killing sprees so I just note I consider it combination media coverage, mental health issues and/or radicalism and gun accessibility.

Now some questions:

1. What do you think about the feminist concept called "male entitlement"? Is it right? Can it be harmful?
2. What do you think of it's use in arguments about Patriarchy, toxic masculinity and mass shootings? Are misguided ideas about women causing mass murder and oppression?
3. Do you have some knowledge of Psychology, Psychiatry and/or feminist theory? Have you reconsidered something about "male entitlement" after reading my submission?
4. What is/are in your opinion the major contributing factor/s to the mass shootings?
5. How do you like my submission? Is it grammatically correct?

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Edit: Update, update2

From what /u/combo5lyf, /u/asymptoma and /u/fernsauce said, it appears that most of scary spooky skeletons (SJWs) just use "male entitlement" wrong. It's supposed to mean entitlement to revenge.

Klebold, Harris, Kazmierczak and Cho Seung- Hui, experienced what we here call ‘aggrieved entitlement’ – a gendered sense that they were entitled, indeed, even expected – to exact their revenge on all who had hurt them. It wasn’t enough to have been harmed; they also had to believe that they were justified, that their mur- derous rampage was legitimate.

So I war originaly right. Male entitlement is misandrist feminist theory and aggrieved entitlement is different concept. Thx to /u/DeLoftie for pointing it out.

Male entitlement is the general pervasive notion that women exist for the purposes of men, from the idea that women exist to be looked at by men, to the idea that sex with women is about male pleasure, to the idea that women should not embarrass men, to the idea that a woman not actively considering the wishes of the men around her is doing something "wrong"

It appears that feminists have some really crazy and bigoted ideas about ideas of men about women...

I want also give shout out to very interesting blogpost on so called "good guys" from someone who appears to be therapist. /u/baaliscoming linked it, but it's not visible unless you dive into the comments. Well now it is.

Thank you all for your contributions to this submission.