For one man to force another man to do anything through male peer pressure in that special trademark way.
This includes verbally degrading their ability to do anything or stressing a scoff full of testosterone and disbelief to make the person feel inept.
Usually ends up including "do you want me to do it FOR you?", and typically ending up with the situation in question turning out poorly even though the person in question succumbed to the mantagonizing.
AJ: I don't think I'm going to fit into this parking spot...
Brett: Oh come on, you've got plenty of room.
*AJ starts backing the van up*
Brett: Are you serious right now? Do you want me to park the van for you?
AJ: Fine, I'll park here.
*AJ parks successfully*
Brett: Now we've barely got any room to get out. Whatever...
Dev: That was funny.
Andy: Chyep. Is mantagonize a word? If not, I just coined that because that just happened.
churchhurt is where you experience a degree of distance, pain, or judgement from your church community. Essentially, you are just unable to “find your place”. This is prevalent in the Christian community, but can be extended to other religions.
Now that I am an adult I am beginning to heal from the churchhurt that was inflicted on me as a child.
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.”