Scapegoated 4 fun
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People seem to have this narrow minded view of thinkers and feelers where they assume that feelers are inherently more emotional/compassionate than thinkers. But the fact of the matter is, when we break down the functions we start to see an entirely different picture. Thinkers repress their feeling function (presumably for a reason) while feelers repress their thinking function (presumably for a reason as well). Now that means that at their core, their base, their innermost self, the thinker is a feeler while the feeler is a thinker. That's why they have to hide it, cause it's vulnerable, it's them at their most vulnerable level. In other words, thinkers are so emotional that they NEED to repress their emotions with rationalization, whereas feelers are so intellectual that they need to repress their thoughts with emotions. This is also the reason I see the feeler need to play the role of victim as unjust, because at their core, they aren't victims, they are intellects. Thinkers at their core? Naive, trusting, emotional, easily exploited. Why else would they put up a front of cold, hard logic, it's because inside, they feel vulnerable, let's just face it. This isn't to say that all thinkers are inherently victims, but rather that they tend to be more emotionally vulnerable than your average feeler due to this highly sensitive disposition and we oughtta start recognizing it instead of assuming feeler automatically equals sensitive, compassionate, emotional while thinker automatically equals cold, detached, impersonal, invulnerable. We have to understand that the primary functions are often contradictory to what lies at the core of the personality.