An American tabloid talk show that ran from 1991 to 2022.
Dealt with a number of different topics, most notably Paternity tests, involving women who had slept with up to 20 men and asserting that the last one is the real father of her child. Ends in drama, with either the woman running offstage after the paternity results shows the man on stage is not the real father of the child, or the mother's vindication and demanding that the man be a father to his child. Such is the outcome that Maury is looking for, being a advocate for the nuclear family.
A parody episode of The Maury Povich Show:
Man: There ain't no way I'm that baby's daddy, Maury. That girl sleeps with everyone. Hell, she'd probably fuck a pack of hotdogs if they looked at her the right way.
Maury: Well, the test results are in. In the case of four-year-old Smith-and-Wesson Jr, you are not the father!
(Woman runs offstage crying, crowd boos and man jeers)
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.”