When you do something without permission using the excuse that it can’t hurt if someone doesn’t know about it.
Derived from Margaret Atwood’s famous saying “ “What you don't know won't hurt you.”
“TheSnowDrifter isn’t gonna be too happy about you using her Sonic art in your YouTube videos. She specifically put red indicators saying no one has her permission. She’s going to completely flip out!”
“That’s why we’re not gonna tell her. It’d be a shame to not make the best video possible by not using the best art possible just because of lack of permission. We have Margaret Atwood’s Permission.” ;3
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.”