Wow, this got a lot of responses overnight. Thanks [MENTION=23583]yama[/MENTION], [MENTION=27952]Merced[/MENTION], [MENTION=1180]miss fortune[/MENTION], and [MENTION=27809]Lotus[/MENTION] for writing about your experiences being a sensor.
Most people join this site in order to work out some internal issues having to do with identity, self perception, belonging, etc. I have noticed that when a person who types as N joins this site, there tends to be a more substantial confidence boost than when someone who types as S joins. Time and time again I've observed the social dynamic on this site actually increase the issues of my sensor friends. Many people grow up with some sort of trauma about being stupid, worthless, lesser, or just not good enough the way they are, which is strongly reinforced as true here if you type as S.
Sensors have easy lives, sensors make the lives of intuitives hard, senors are stupid, sensors can't understand patterns or make connections, sensors aren't creative, sensors aren't imaginative sounds a lot like:
"Everything is handed to you in life but you still don't succeed. What's wrong with you? You make my life impossible. You're a negative influence on the world. You're an idiot. You don't understand anything. You are so stupid that you're not even capable of understanding anything I say to you. You are boring and your only use is to mop up the dregs of society with a menial job. You'll never amount to more, and if you do, it's because everything is always handed to you anyway."
That is the attitude a lot of people were met with as kids, and while that attitude is not as abusive or personal on this site, it does act as confirmation that the sensor really is that stupid, that worthless, that inept, etc, therefore actually increasing the problems that the person needs to work through. This doesn't happen with Ns on this site - they aren't met with that and it's easier for them to work through their issues feeling supported and validated by the typological system.
It would be silly to say the issue is just with the social dynamic on this site, or even mainly, because the dynamic doesn't just pop up out of thin air. It originates from typology itself. The attitude is written into the system. The descriptions are incredibly biased, badly written, and wrong, and the entire system is incredibly reductivist to start with, making it so that something extraordinarily complex and subtle (the human mind) is simplified for the comfort of simple people: so they can see the world in black and white.
Of course the typological pattern exists, but the existence of the pattern doesn't justify the reductivism of the pattern.