An expression of disbelief or skepticism in the south, usually used by "grandmamie" when you talk about your new technology, your unkle when you talk about how tough you are or your girlfriend when you talk about how her eyes shine in the special light from the fishin' lantern (the latter is only a female tactic called 'fishing for compliments,' since she knows just how much discount glitter she used to get you to say that, and by no means should you take it seriously and sway from the original statement)
"I'm gonna whip your stinkin' butt"
"P'saw, son, you need a ladder?"
"I love the way your skin shines like the fish scales!"
"Oh, P'saw, you're just saying that tee hee"
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.”