The act of rolling up one's upper lip, as though it were a curtain, to expose the teeth (often in the fashion of imitating a beaver). Pulling the curtain originated in the Appalachians and is frequently utilized in comedic Vine parodies. Pulling up the curtain can be used to express overwhelming joy, frustration, anger, or a natural response to hearing a banjo.
When Seth told Jennifer they were going on a road trip to the Smokey Mountains, she immediately was overwhelmed with joy and was "pulling up the curtain".
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.”