alternative lifestyles

See alternative lifestyle.

Same smell.

alternative lifestyles by Downstrike May 25, 2004

Alternative Lifestyle Haircut 

alternative lifestyle haircut (n) – A haircut or style that indicates its owner leads a life contrary to that of the conservative or heterosexual world. Also known as “the significant lesbian haircut,” the acquiring of an alternative lifestyle haircut is often seen as a rite of passage into lesbian adulthood, even if it is not maintained after the initial cut. Like a bat mitzvah, but on your head. Examples include: the mohawk, the fauxhawk, the mullet, the sidesweep, and the Tegan and Sara.

The term was coined by Autostraddle.com and has since become a common collloquialism.

1.) Jess just came out and, after going to her first Tegan and Sara concert, got an alternative lifestyle haircut similar to Tegan's.

2.) Once Leah added an alternative lifestyle haircut to her outfit composed of American Apparel and a skinny tie, she became infinitely more attractive.

Alternative Lifestyle Haircut by udddddd April 25, 2010

alternative lifestyle 

Any socially-unconvential lifestyle, esp. sexual. Includes but is not restricted to describing gay lifestyles.

Swinging is an alternative lifestyle.
To Meg, Goth was more than just an attitude, it was whole alternative lifestyle.

alternative lifestyle by md April 3, 2003

Alternative Lifestyle Companion 

fag hag fruit fly

The politically correct way of saying fag hag or fruit fly.

Girl 1: "Oh, SQUEE! Look at those two guys kissing!"
Girl 2: "You, my friend, are certifiably an obsessed alternative lifestyle companion.'

Alternative Lifestyle Companion by MightyMaeve August 28, 2008

alternative lifestyle 

Being gay.

He lives an alternative lifestyle *cough* hes gay *cough*

alternative lifestyle by three_sixteen February 13, 2003

Alternate lifestyle 

Different than alternative lifestyle (often used to describe being part of the LGBTQ+ community), alternate lifestyle describes a life outside the social norms. It may include making money by selling drugs, living as part of a gang, living on the streets by choice, choosing a job of stealing/robbery instead of a law abiding legal job. Living an alternate lifestyle is often a choice by someone (at first), where someone is choosing to live alternate to the lifestyle they are currently able to live. It is not someone living without a house due to job loss, or other unfortunate circumstances, it it a chosen lifetyle for whatever reason (looks/sounds cooler than what they are doing, friends are doing it, they are mad at parents and are choosing to live away instead of going home.).

Have you seen Joe?
Na, he's out selling and living un homed, he's trying an alternate lifestyle.

Ahh, yeah his parents are looking for him.

Alternate lifestyle by Moraghlouise March 23, 2024

Grindset

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.”

Grindset by Omega-Male May 22, 2026