During your teenage years, you develop an "edgy" sense of humor that all the adults at your dad's get-togethers seem to lack while they interact in their suits and such.
As you develop this "edgy" sense of "humor" (see: Stupid Teenage Humor), you begin to notice how dumb your father's sense of humor is, and thus begin to cringe every time he tries to tell a joke at the dinner table, or worse, in front of your friends! Even if your dad manages to say something funny, you discard it as Stupid Father Humor. Because your father's old and that makes people stupid and unfunny but you know what? You're stupid. (Stupid Teenage Humor)
Dad: "Hey son, how's that garsh darn science project coming along?
Son: "It's OK dad."
Dad: "You werkin' hard or hardly werkin'? Huckhuckhuckhuck
Son: "...masturbating." snickersnick-"uh oh, I have to adjust my retainer"-snikersnikerI'msoedgy
Stupid Father Humor. Why do I have to use the word in the example? Is this tenth grade again?
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.”