A faux feminist is just that, a fake feminist. This can be for various reasons, such as a person claiming to be a feminist to 'fit in' with a group of people, or a person who uses feminism to bash and belittle non-feminists (usually men). They generally only use feminism to hurt or attack others.
Someone who claims to be a feminist, yet does nothing to help aid feminism and/or blatantly goes against feminism either by excluding transgender people (see TERF), slut-shaming, victim-blaming, focusing only on white women (see White Feminism), attacking men in the name of feminism (see Misandry), or supporting sexual predators, or silently standing by on crucial social issues and therefore adding to the problem.
Molly is saying that she's a feminist, but she never does anything to help feminism and most of the time I actually see her hurting the cause.
Yeah, I know, she is no better than those who are actively against feminism. Molly is a Faux-Feminist.
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.”