A woman who is treated fairly and with respect by coworkers.
Referring to Paleolithic times(~12000BCE) when men cared for animals and women tended crops with a hoe. The invention of the plow required men to do "heavy work" and an animal to pull. This in turn changed the roles to males providing for the family, while women raised the family, creating the first gender inequality.
Dave: "Did you hear Stacy quit her job at Microsoft for a job at Burger king?"
Sam: "Hard to believe, but she said the work environment is so much better."
Dave: "They must have made her a paleolithic hoe."
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.”