When designers try to cover up America's obesity by making clothes two sizes larger than what's written on the tag.
Also, appealing to girl's obsession with skinniness by making them believe there is such a thing as a size 00.
Girl 1: "I used to be a size 14 but now I wear a size 8, I swear it's because I switched to a 12-pack of diet coke a day instead of the regular stuff and I only let myself splurge on even numbered days.. that is if I remember what day it is."
Girl 2: "Are you sure it's not vanity sizing?"
Girl 1: "No, it's definitely the diet."
-In the 1950's Marilyn Monroe was a size 12 which is now equivalent to what we consider a size 4. How's that for vanity sizing.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"
FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
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.”