an illegal act that an incoming penn state football player must go through in order to earn a roster spot. these acts include, but are not limited to, using and/or selling drugs, raping some drunk female, assaulting a female, dui, and so on. failure to commit an illegal act such as these ultimately results in that football player being thrown off the team.
penn state football is notorious for having the most unruly, misbehaved players. obviously they are not required to commit an illegal act to be on the team but because 93% of them have been arrested i just came up with the conclusion that
all the football players have to go through some sort of initiation.
guy 1: oh my god! isn't that our star freshman quarterback? why is he raping
that nun on top of a cop car with a bottle of bacardi in one hand and a crack
pipe in the other hand?
guy 2: hmm, must be his penn state football player initiation.
guy 1: oh ya, that's right. let's go sit on lawn chairs in front of JoePa's house and masturbate.
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.”