Two speakers examine how cultural upbringing creates entitled men. When families treat sons as golden children and teach daughters to serve them, boys develop grandiosity and dismissive attitudes toward spouses and children. These parenting patterns and gender role expectations directly fuel abusive behavior.
What do you think the problem is really? Is it the way these men are raised?
What do you think? The way the men are raised, we spoil our men. We teach our daughters to be good wives.
Yes.
We teach them to serve their brothers. And sometimes the men are the golden child. You can't touch them. You can't, you know, like mine was a golden child. So it gets into their head. He had this sense of grandiosity. This is how my husband walked, or he would walk with his hands behind him.
Yeah, the delusion of grandeur.
Yes, because of that sense of grandiosity. Nobody's as good as him, not his wife, not his children. We can't tell him what he's doing is wrong. I remember one time one of my children said to me, Daddy, what you're doing is not good. How you are treating Mommy is not good. Say, is him you are talking to like that? And he flicked his finger at her and said, you will see, you don't cross him. He doesn't forgive a slight.