This is in regards to a recent woman bemoaning a man not approaching her and buying her a drink at the airport: https://www.forums.red/p/whereareallthegoodmen/325742/thanks_for_buying_my_drink/

There are multiple facets to Entitlement Thinking usually driven by sociopathy. The Sopranos was an excellent series that featured a mafia Patriarch undergoing psychotherapy trying to reconcile his desire to retain his family with his urge to enjoy "the life" that was inherently destructive to it. This is also a theme to The Godfather series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmeB0KBbPoA

Entitlement Thinking requires rationalizations: 1) I'm a victim and someone owes me. 2) I'm better than them and they're inferior to me (caste/prince/princess.) 3) Power. I've got something they want (sex) so I can use that as leverage to take things from them, the more I can grab and give little in return, the better.

"Fear will keep the local systems in line." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XQjZwxfA0k

She's annoyed and angry that a man perhaps found her attractive and inadvertently expressed IOI similar to how women often signal them to us. If a woman looks at you, but then away to not be overt about it, "the Man" is "supposed" to approach and attempt to see if he can escalate further. He is supposed to pass her little tests to "earn" sex with her including buying drinks or dinner.

Note that this a description of a "warm" approach where SHE has expressed subtle IOI that the man "should" pick up on. He was the one who expressed them, however, She doesn't indicate in the video that she returned the IOI. Perhaps she did but was unconscious about it. Here's an example of when this system worked back in the 1940's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aVBacOc6AQ

It's back AND forth. She actually made an effort to establish surface level intimacy, smile, laughing and behave in a welcome manner and then went off with him to talk in private. She "earned" that drink. Note she's also dressed feminine and looking pretty. Look at how the lovely Tuppence Middleton is dressed and makeup compared to how this woman looks like she barely got out of bed and frumped her way to the airport. Also note the need for a social connection: The alpha character in the film didn't just go up to the table at random. Turing introduced them.

What's also telling is what this woman regrets. She doesn't regret the loss of a relationship. Personal story: I had a young woman who played the hard-to-get game on me back 40 years ago. I got her number and called her and her roommate picked up. I left a message. Didn't hear back. I tossed her number and moved on. My sister who knew her said "Carla said you can call her!" "Well", I told my sister, "I did! She didn't call me back!" If I had called back, again, and got the roommate, then I'd look like a desperate pest and she wouldn't have been interested in me anyhow. Perhaps I should have called her after my sister delivered the message because my (unintentional) game had worked. I had won her expressing a more overt interest. I might not have married my foreign wife and had a fat American wife instead and been far less interesting. Ah, that timeline...

Anyhoo, my point being that this woman griping about the loss of a free drink means she likely caught his IOI, found it beta, and was hoping she could con a free drink out of him particularly since paying for airport drinks hurts. As a side observation, airport concessions are increasingly expensive because they are how airports are funded. Cincinnati Airport yanked out the moving walkways to force people to walk by the overpriced shops. At an airport in Odessa, Ukraine, we had to walk through a gift shop to access a gate area (tons of fun with a toddler, let me tell you!)

That being said, their BS rationalization that "being pretty costs me!" makes some sense in that if a woman only goes out in public looking pretty, for men, then perhaps she will deserve an approach and/or even free "planned" (and paid) date or drink. Looking at how women of the past or in some foreign countries making themselves look pretty to men's aesthetic would mean they'd be noticed and appreciated.

Did it ever cross this woman's mind as she got her nose ring "Is this going to make me pretty for men to approach me and buy me stuff?"

I heard back in the 1990's an otherwise pleasant woman tell me "women dress for other women". And there you go. Ask the other women to buy you thinks then, missy.