This generation does not resonate with the term "marriage material" but is looking for a way to filter to their ideal mate. Many people have a pipeline of people dating in an uncommitted fashion. Hence, an excellent way to cut through all the noise is to have criteria that prioritize their selection to one person. Bunkerworthy is which of these people from your pipeline of Instagram, Match.com, Tinder, or Grinder that you would bring and lock yourself in the bunker during the apocalypse for a two-year minimum period. Who will add value, not get on your nerves, and supply some much-needed sexy time?
I was chatting with my son at lunch, and he was saying that he was dating this girl and that girl, and they all seemed like clones of each other, so I had to draw a hard line and ask which one was Bunkerworthy.
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.
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.”