A person who you are not in a relationship with but could always have the ability of being in a relationship. Much like astronaut food that person will never go stale or tired of waiting for their love to be requited.
Samantha: I am so lonelymaybe I should just go out with Ian.
Francesca: yeah, he's your "astronaut food" , he's been in love with you for like 2 years!
A person in a relationship who is being used for sex, friendship or comfort without receiving affection or love in return. Often, the non-astronaut food party is in an unhappy relationship.
The term refers to the packets of food astronauts use for nourishment without any taste or satisfaction.
The term comes from the book "You Don't Love Me Yet" by Jonathan Lethem.
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.”