OrangeAppled
Sugar Hiccup
- Joined
- Mar 20, 2009
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- MBTI Type
- INFP
- Enneagram
- 4w5
- Instinctual Variant
- sp/sx
Well, actually, I'll tell you what inspired this thread. And it's actually not meant to blame N's for an S prejudice. It's to make light of my own prejudices. I won't name the exact type prejudice, since I don't want an uproaring. (Many of you may know what it is, anyways.) We'll call them xxxx for now Many xxxx's on this site are annoying. Point blank. They suck. (Not all of them, but a high percentage of them. Just to clarify, I can make a list of awesome xxxx's from this site as well.) In real life, I don't really notice that much. I just realized that this site led me to believe that half of this type must be horrible. Therefore, this site actually created a prejudice.
Some of the "representatives" of a type here make a bad name for that type, true... but I find those are just a few loudmouth people.
The spirit behind MBTI is to embrace the idea that there are different personalities (which most people realize to a point, but may not realize it's as big a difference as cognitive function), and that each has its strengths & one is not superior to another. This is why MBTI may be accused of being too "positive" in its profiles. In Gifts Differing, Myers says she wanted to focus on the "normative" types, or the what a type looks like when relatively healthy. Sometimes on this site, there is more focus on the way a type can be unhealthy.