Your experiences teach you things about the way the world operates.

My stepfather was a man who was very into critiquing women's appearances and you should see all the bakery goods and things like that he would eat and not hardly gain any weight. 

Later, he did have health problems and some of his eating habits might have contributed to them. Anyways, he was raised with a sense of entitlement as a man. Sometimes he would use his sense of entitlement to help you, but oftentimes, it did not help very much.