Does anyone else see this as a flagrant example of unrecognised female privilege?

"My dad was in prison for eight years of my life. When he got out, he spent a little time with us, but then he got a new girlfriend and started spending all his time and money on her. My mother doesn't have much money, so I recently asked him if he could pay for a class trip to Spain. He promised he would, so my grandmother went ahead and put it on her credit card. But right before he was going to give me the money, we got in an argument. He started saying bad things about my mother, which I wasn't going to allow. Afterwards, he texted me that he was going to take the money for my trip, and spend it on himself. He told me he was going to take photos of all the things he bought and post them on Instagram. So I took a screenshot of the text message, and posted it on Instagram, with the hashtag: #deadbeatdad. He reported me to Instagram for bullying, so they deleted the post. Then I put it right back up, hashtag #onlypussiesreportpeople."

I noticed this quote-which-probably-never-happened from "Humans of New York", a popular Facebook page which shares thought-provoking stories intended as a window into the human condition. The comments were full of sympathy and condemnation of "deadbeat dads", I noticed one woman offering to donate money so this girl could go on her school trip and suggesting she set up a Kickstarter, as if she were a cause celebre in the vein of Stephen Sutton, the cancer patient who raised £3,200,000 online.

Consider the following:
- For an American, a trip to Spain is a significant amount of money.
- The family probably receives alimony, a backward social relief "system" involving seizure of private wealth regardless of ability to pay (which has endured due to America's refusal to institute a proper statist social security system).
- The girl is a late teenager, due to the distance involved in the trip. Therefore there is no insurmountable barrier to her or her mother seeking work (I say this as a vigorous detractor of the doctrine of work for work's sake).

It is churlish of the father to break his promise, and downright childish that he should boast about spending the money on himself. (Public shaming, airing dirty laundry, and disregarding online moderation are equally childish, but I am ready to excuse the teenager on grounds of age.)

The above bullet-points constitute for me an example of female entitlement which I am frustrated to see none of the commenters picking up on. Teenagers in America are much more "kept" than we are over here, true, but I never had my (resolutely married) parents pay for any holiday past the age of 16. I would certainly not have been impudent enough to demand that they pay for me. The girl, and by association her mother, appear to feel entitled that they can demand expensive holidays from the father, in addition to the alimony payment they are doubtless receiving, and their unimpaired capacity to work. Furthermore, the girl's story glosses over an important development: the argument. Even if he started it, it is understandable that he should be resentful about funding her fun with the sweat of his brow over and above the alimony payment that the law decided they needed.

I know the story is probably made-up, but my concern is that the tens of thousands of commenters appear blind to the element of female entitlement.

While I can see the gender angle to this story, I think it says more about the sense of entitlement the children in the US have than 'female privilege' per se.

I'm not getting much of an entitlement vibe from this. Like you say a trip to Spain from the US ain't cheap, so to promise to pay for the trip, only to withdraw the offer after somebody else had already paid for it, is a Dick Move. They're not entitled to his money but they are entitled to be angry since it's still a breach of trust and the whole thing comes off as very spiteful.

That's a fair comment. Family values mean their kids remain dependent all the way through college. The idea of the self-reliant family underlies a lot of things in America, like husband/housewife gender roles and tedious debates like "should abortion be legal?" and "should the state support people?"