When a someone expects special discount or other benefits above and beyond the ordinary from a service provider because of a friendly relationship, but then also expects all the benefits of a traditional customer/business transaction.
You give a neighbor or friend the discount over what you'd normally charge, and come over on the weekend, then they are confriending you by expecting all the same level of service you'd give a full paying client.
The act of neither confirming nor ignoring a facebook friend request, thereby leaving the friend request that is "awaiting confirmation" hovering in your friend request box indefinitely, leaving the requester completely powerless.
Janie: Hey, did you ever respond to that friend request from Kathleen?
Elena: No way! I totally nonfriended her. She can keep waiting.
Janie: Nonfriending is the only way to go with that crazy bitch. You wouldn't want her to facestalk you anyways.
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”