This doesn't really resonate with me. When men are the ones "on the bench" to begin with, they don't play these kinds of games. They use threats and force to keep out anybody they don't feel like sharing with, and if someone manages to "sit on the bench" with them they will turn to her and say slurs to her with their full chests until she decides it's just not fucking worth it any more and leaves to build her own goddamn bench.

For typical male entitlement, I'd picture a room full of empty benches, with a woman sitting on one end of one bench, and a man coming in and sitting directly next to the woman despite ample space for him elsewhere. Then the woman quietly gets up and moves to a different bench, and the man falls to the ground screaming.

If the man were a TIM, he would push her off the bench, then claim he is being oppressed when other women choose not to sit next to him.

As other commenters pointed out, this isn't an exact representation of all cases of male entitlement. It is, however, a perfect example of what happens when women start entering industries dominated by men!

Especially in tech, as soon as women start becoming more prominent in an industry, you start to see more men complaining that it's so hard to find a job and that all the "diversity hires" are stealing positions from them. And in most male-dominated industries, they're typically centered around an interest that only men are allowed to have, like computers or cars, so to them it really is "MY bench" and any woman who tries to sit on that bench is instantly taking up too much space.

They'd be fine with the woman being there if it meant she was sitting on the ground by the bench, i.e. she's just eyecandy in the workplace. It's the fact that she wants to be on equal standing with the man that the entitlement starts to come out.

Oh my GOD this is perfect. In one of my radfem books, I saw the stat that men think women talk more than we actually do and interrupt more than we actually do.

https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2017/07/07/men-interrupting-women

Also, in a group setting, men think that there are more women than there actually are. I'm not articulating it well, but I was shocked and irritated. It was some study where they asked men how many women were in a group and the men said "half" when there was way less than half. Men perceive women as taking up much more space than we actually do.

Somewhat related: I can't count the times I've given up a seat for someone older on the bus (despite having a massive, heavy rucksack, being exhausted after work and not being the strongest-looking woman in the world) whilst men don't even bother to offer. I envy men their privilege to be able to move through the world only ever caring about themselves.

This what the men in Spain look like tbf. Literally throwing tantrums

I can see TRAs using this exact comic in response to women who don't want men in their bathrooms. It's just another way of saying "rights are not pie!"