History Main / ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife

* From ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' we have Ming Lee, the overbearing mother of the protagonist Mei. While she's not actually a housewife (since she runs the family's temple in Toronto's Chinatown), she still falls into a lot of the typical hallmarks of this trope. She wants her daughter to be absolutely perfect, and even falsely accuses a teenage convenience store clerk of grooming Mei upon discovering drawings of the both of them kissing in her notebook. To top it off, she says the Daisy Mart has "lost a loyal customer" before storming out. [[CharacterDevelopment She does soften up as she connects more with her daughter and respects her freedom, however.]]

* Lady Catherine De Bourgh from ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' may be one of the oldest examples in literature. She is a wealthy busybody who is entitled to hear the business of other people and to their time, even trying to boss around her hosts at Longbourn when she demands Lizzie to drop her engagement with Mr. Darcy (her nephew), she wants everyone to lick her boots and thinks highly of herself, judgmental of other women, she wants her nephew Mr. Darcy to marry her daughter, is classist, insulting, and believes she has the best advice for everything even in how to pack a trunk (something that she has other people do for her). Unlike the classic suburban form of this trope, however, she is an aristocratic GrandeDame rather than an insecure middle-class woman.
** Elizabeth's mother, Mrs. Bennett, is a more toned-down version. A middle-class woman who married into the aristocracy, she is obsessed with finding socially-advantageous matches for her daughters. She is overly chatty, nosy, and embarrassing, but never actually cruel, and the subtext of her character is that she is the way she is because it's the only way for her - and her family - to survive, and it's clear she genuinely does want what she thinks is best for her daughters.

* In Jenny Lorenzo's ''[[WebVideo/{{Abuela}} Abuela's Family]]'' sketches (which center on a Cuban-American grandmother, her three daughters, and three granddaughters, all played by Lorenzo), Tia Gloria is this to a T. She displays a HolierThanThou attitude coupled with razor-sharp wit that [[Series/SaturdayNightLive The Church Lady]] would envy, a sleek blonde bob and an exaggerated Anglo-American accent (in contrast to her mother's and sisters' Cuban-American accents) along with snooty commentary aimed towards her sisters and her families for not being as religious, wealthy, organized, or classy as her. In one Instagram sketch, she is used to lampoon colorism in the Latino community that prioritizes Anglo features (blond hair and blue eyes) as superior enough to have Jesus Christ possess them as an infant.

* There's a tiktok that presents the point of view of an such a person, who has spent her life supporting conservatives values and opposing feminism now making a scene in a supermarket because "don't these people know - [[OriginalPositionFallacy exceptions are supposed to made]] for ''you.''"

(And apologies to anyone ''actually'' named Karen)

Could overlap with the idea of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer_mom "soccer mom"]], though a soccer mom is usually just a more active '90s style {{Housewife}}. If anything she's more beleaguered than entitled. If their children are with them, they can easily overlap with AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents or HelicopterParents.

** Elena is a blonde, entitled journalist who is able to talk her way round the police (and is buddies with them, even bringing them cookies), runs all the PTA events, sits on the Shaker Heights committee, lives in a huge suburban [=McMansion=] that was initially owned by her parents, and is passive-aggressive about hiring a black helper (whom she refuses to call a "maid" but treats as one). Opinions are highly divided about whether or not JerkassHasAPoint with regard to defending her best (white) friend who adopted a Chinese infant, but she was definitely wrong in [[spoiler:buying her way to learn dirt about Mia (who is black) so she could make sure the adoption went through.]] She also barely hesitates to use her power to try and kick anyone she doesn't like out of the neighborhood. She is given a lot of depth, however, to the point where we can sympathize with her, even if we don't like her, and the story explores her frustrated ambitions and why she is the way she is in enough detail that she ends up a JerkassWoobie rather than an outright HateSink.
** Lexie, Elena's eldest daughter, may just be a teenager but it is repeatedly invoked and discussed to be a ''fait accompli'' in her behavior. She is entitled, wealthy, and stole her "best friend", Pearl's, story about being discriminated on terms of race (Pearl is black) and changed it around to be about gender so she could get into [[IvyLeagueForEveryone Yale.]] She also relies on Pearl's help after [[spoiler:getting an abortion]]...only to put Pearl's name down instead because she doesn't want the upper-class clinic to guess it's her.