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I'm old. What is a "sigma film bro"?
Sigma nuts, haHAA
start here: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sigma+male
Ah the stupid wolf shit. Thanks I was hung up on the film part. So "basic person more murdery than loner nerd"? Isn't that like the whole point of American Psycho?
The joke is leaning more on the OCD/narcissistic characteristics of Patrick Bateman than the murdery part. Like, having a ridiculously tedious self-care routine due to vanity (or self-consciousness, take your pick).
I think it's kinda weird that you used the whole initialism for only one of those disorders. You could have used it for both or neither, but you didn't.
It was for brevity and clarity. People are very familiar with hearing "OCD" used casually, but "NPD" would have sounded too specific and clinical compared to "narcissistic" as a character trait.
Neil Patrick Derris?
As a random comment reader, you are correct in your assessment. I can deduce NPD is "narcissistic personality disorder" from having read "narcissistic" in your previous comment but it's much less familiar than OCD.
I think we all have a duty to communicate ethically moreso than to communicate clearly. People are used to hearing the partial version of NPD because of cultural stigma. We know more than them, and that means we have a duty to educate them.
Speak for yourself bozo
Uh, the whole point of communication is clarity, otherwise you're just making noises. Communication requires that the recipient understands the intended message.
Communicating clearly is also important. But communicating ethically is more important. Like most people, I'd rather be called a nice word I don't know than a homophobic slur I understand perfectly well. Wouldn't you?
Communicating clearly is fundamental to communicating at all. If it isn't clear, it isn't communication.
And my mother said if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. Communicating ethically is more important than communicating at all.
I've never in my life seen an initialism for narcissism.
NPD. Go read psychology textbooks until you've got a basic grasp of mental health verbiage.
Just because it's a thing in psychology textbooks doesn't mean it's part of the common vernacular. OCD definitely is, but NPD isn't.
What does that have to do with upper middle class girls with a green juice on tiktok?
Nothing. Here's a helpful link for you to learn basic conversational skills: https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=conversational+tangent
Hell if I know. I've heard the term "Sigma Grindset" before, but it can't be tied to what I'm thinking of.
You'd have to be the worst workaholic ever to be applying Six Sigma/Agile stuff to your personal life.
It’s tied to the alpha/beta wolf bollocks. “Sigma” wolves exist outside of the normal order but are on par with “alphas”.
Basically, grifters wanted to expand their customer base to include lonely people lmao
I think (hope) sigma grindset is a joke, in the way that it makes fun of entrepreneur influencers by being so out of line it can't possibly be true. I have however no proof to offer.
I remember it starting back on reddit in response to the whole "alpha" thing. The point was to goad the alphabros to ask "what's sigma" then hit them with "sigma nuts." They would get so pissed off, there was a whole subreddit for barbaric sigma memes mocking them and posting screenshots of sigma nuts.
Then they started taking it seriously, and the joke shifted to asking what they thought sigma meant, and the subreddit started posting screenshots of the insane replies.
Then, people started taking it TOO seriously, and everything went downhill.
Just like any good joke, someone's going to take it too literal. Sigma has been around so long that it's heavily in the category of, "satire that some didn't realize was satire and now it's unironically used".
It feels weird to see Six Sigma implicitly paired with Agile instead of Lean. That said, Six Sigma is generally concerned with much higher quantities than are found in personal life, so yeah that would be nuts. Although, Agile and Lean do both have stuff that could be reasonably applied to personal life.
I mean, putting something on your shopping list when it's running low is basically just Kanban.