1st observed by myself in the movie, "Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer", featuring Cary Grant with Shirley Temple as the high schooler who's out to "get him". Unfortunately for her plans, her big sister is a local municipal judge. Laughs ensue following his lecture at an assembly at her high school. The term is used as they are just about to exit the house on their way to a big community picnic. the answer to the question of whether she was ready for the big day and how did she feel was, "Hookey-dookey".
Are you ready to go?
Ready.
How're you feeling?
Hookey-dookey
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.”