Wow I have found an example of incel dieter rams in the wild I need to draft the Incel Modernist manifesto https://twitter.com/_erichu/status/1288666896070578178
Incel-Modernism
Incel-Modernism
An incel-modernist is caught between two worlds—the acquisition of objects that signal a heightened taste for good design and the animalistic urge to optimize said objects in satisfaction of activities deemed too philistine by those with similar aesthetic proclivities
A dyson vacuum and a gaming pc share similar aesthetics—both fetishize a false idea of functionality and exposing mechanics to the viewer, but only one of them is Incel Modernism. Cleaning is seen as a more responsible activity than gaming. Context is important.
Modernist objects can be co-opted into sites of incel-modernist experiences. Storing books in Pierro Lissoni coffee table is modernist. Using it to display your gundam collection however...
In discussing this with my peers I have been told on more than one occasion that “this is just called ‘being a dude in 2020’” and I would like it to be known that I resent such gender-essentialist takes
A lot of the pathology of Incel Modernism is using the Western canon to justify sloth and infantilization. For example, purchasing designer soap because the idea of going across the street to a CVS to buy shampoo is both simultaneously too difficult and beneath you
Being an incel-modernist (In-Mod) takes an emotional toll—cognitive dissonance to reconcile the desire of wanting a house designed by Koji Tsutsui with the visceral memory they had of seeing Arnold's bedroom from Hey Arnold! as a child chasing after the same functionality
1st pic: Incel
2nd pic: Modernist
3rd pic. Incel-Modernist
1st pic: Incel
2nd pic: Modernist
3rd pic: Incel-Modernist
Incel: Dungeons and Dragons
Modernist: Contemporary fashion
Incel-Modernist: An full Rick Owens wardrobe to live out ones fantasy of being a necromancer
1st pic: Incel
2nd pic: Modernist
3rd pic: Incel-Modernist
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