Any guy who is extraordinarily good looking, nice, wealthy, good with kids, and basically perfect in every way yet is somehow mysteriously single. Subject may frequent gay bars and shopping malls under the guise of going with his "girl friends," but these homosexual activities are actually the high point of his existence. May also exhibit an unusual closeness to his mother.
Eustina: I'm really into Brad but everytime I hang out with him always wants to go shopping or hang out at Scorpio. Do you think he's just not in to me?
Carlette: No, I think he's too gay to be true.
Fran: I've been making hella eye contact with Fabio for the past week at Hollister. He's got such a good sense of fashion and is always so sweet when his mother calls.
Betty: Is he good looking?
Fran: Yes, and mysteriously single.
Betty: Well he's obviously too gay to be true!
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.”