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An MBTI scenario and question blog run by an INTJ, an ENTJ, and an ISTP, with consultations from an INFP. Open to submissions and debate!

[thelittledrunkapple]

How women prepare for first dates

Bonus: How men prepare for first dates:

[sarcasticbabywhispererjess]

Accurate.

[pokemonprofessor]

Okay but the first set of gifs is not a joke like that’s literally how it goes.

[onemuseleft]

One of the girls at work won’t get in the guy’s car unless he agrees to let her take photos of him and his license plate to text to her mother. If he gets mad or makes a fuss she cancels the date and goes back inside.

[a-high-ass-ginger]

Reblogging for that 👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼

[whatistimeeven]

I’ve had someone take pics of me and my license plate on a first date before & I was okay with it. I’ve also had a friend allow me to view the tracking on her phone when she went to meet up with a guy the first time. This isn’t a joke at all & women have good reason to worry.

[legolokiismighty]

i have only ever met 2 people online, and made sure that we met up somewhere that was 1) public 2) close to my home. 

After, I walked to the dollar store that was a couple shops down until I knew they were gone, before walking home.

[breelandwalker]

Louis C.K. kind of nailed it. Men worry that their date won’t measure up to their aesthetic preferences. Women worry that they’re going wind up dead.

The disparity is RIDICULOUS, and the fact that dudes get offended when women try to protect themselves is hard proof that way too many guys Do Not Understand how dangerous it is to be a woman. (Not to mention it’s fucking insulting. “How dare you not trust your life and safety to a complete stranger whose intentions you have no way of knowing”?)

[breelandwalker]

Lookin’ at the notes on this post following my earlier reblog and just going….

Wow. WOW. Look at all these sheltered people and their internalized misogyny.

The point isn’t, “NOT ALL MEN ARE OUT TO GET YOU.”

The point is, “WE HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING A NICE GUY FROM A SERIAL KILLER.”

It’s not like they fucking wear nametags, okay? Moreover, the most awful people with the worst intentions often put on the nicest face or deliberately make themselves seem harmless and likeable, to lull potential victims into a false sense of security. (Read up on Ted Bundy sometime. It’s horrifying shit. Or read any thread on the “Let’s Not Meet” subreddit.)

In order to protect ourselves, we are forced to assume the worst of every man we meet, because statistically speaking, the biggest danger to women…IS MEN. Saying “not all men are out to get you, you’re just being paranoid” is like saying “not every car you ride in is going to crash, so buckling your seatbealt is stupid.”

When dealing with an unknown situation, in the absence of absolute proof of safety, exercising a little extra caution can be the difference between life and death. Shaming women for being what you may view as overly cautious is every bit as horrid as blaming them if something goes wrong later on.

And refusing to go to a secluded location with a complete stranger without letting someone know where you’re going, who you’re with, and how to find you is just common street sense, whether you’re on a date or just going out for business or social purposes.

If your life has been so sheltered (or your coping skills so incredible) that you see no need to distrust strangers or worry about the potential for violence, you should thank your lucky stars.

And you should also be aware that just because it hasn’t happened to you or anyone you know does not mean that it doesn’t happen.

Lemme say that louder for the people in the back.

Just because it hasn’t happened to you or anyone you know does not mean that it doesn’t happen.

[bilt2tumble]

Re-Reblog for relevant commentary.

[zafirozorro-deactivated20160501]

And if you won’t take a woman’s word for it because you are some kind of asshat, men who sleep with men also mirror these rituals because even men are afraid of other men based on men’s behavior and inability to understand “no” or take rejection well.

[ladytemeraire]

I’ll stop reblogging this when it stops being relevant

[nitrozz]

Alllll of this.  Being paranoid will often save your life.  Assholes who say otherwise need to shut their noise holes and stop acting like they know better. 

[ohmessylife]

the types as posts made by shitpost generator

intp: abandon astrology / reblog to legalize evangelion / kinky robots

infp: sad Communism / my goal is to straight up suffer / adam sandler must be destroyed

istj: sometimes i can’t stop judging all porn / DO  NOT STOP STUDYING THE LAWS. / remember your suburban taxes

isfj: reblog if you gently post about dogs / please do not disrespect the moon / turns out it’s okay to suffer for your people

entj: my sum of money is beautiful / 61 simple steps to enjoying pizza / how to eat feelings

enfj: you can’t make me destroy / attempting to avoid unacceptable beef / look at this slightly dissapointing taste of humanity

estp: im gonna mail your friends the football / *seductively punches a shitty face* / destroy the moon

esfp: glorify goku / likes: simple everything / imagine a dog

intj: Guess who’s about to write a fucking symphony. / i love creating confusing games / *cooks my husband* well shit

infj: the angel of sapiosexuality / tragedy must be feeled / *kissses your humans* why are you so fucking disgusting?

istp: too many people / guess who’s about to hate shit / i’m too fucking disgusting to look at love and tolerance

isfp: why can’t we just get along and shitpost about TvTropes / what’s the point of abandoning art theft? /  it’s okay to resist the handsome god of aesthetic

estj: I’m not going to eat your piece of shit marxism. / watch me profit from the moon / guess who’s about to bully your hamster

esfj: im gonna be a princess / *remembers disgraceful friends* dude / cause of death: attempting to dissapoint nerds

entp: do aliens eat ass / sometimes i love remembering beef / jokes are really just unwanted little babies

enfp: desperately romanticize that tasty cartoon / you are awful and my taste of humanity is perfectly good / here we bully the capitalist goverment

[infpicaroon]

The Types as Kids’ Notes

none of these pictures originated with me or by my hand, a fact for which i am eternally grateful.

INFP:

ENFP:

INFJ:

ENFJ:

ISFJ:

ESFJ:

ISTJ:

ESTJ:

INTP:

ENTP:

INTJ:

ENTJ:

ISFP:

ESFP:

ISTP:

ESTP:

[funkymbtifiction]

Sarcastic functions (For fun)

SUBMITTED by Steve

Dominant Si: You throw a temper tantrum when the rest of the group votes to replace the mushrooms with black olives on the pizza

Auxiliary Si: You’re feeling “edgy” this weekend, so you’re gonna try homemade tartar instead of going to Applebee’s

Tertiary Si: You probably have your favorite childhood cartoon character tattooed somewhere on your body

Inferior Si: You only changed religions twice during college, that’s surprisingly conservative of you

Dominant Se: Everything you do has to result in you saying “Whoooooaaaaaaa!!!”

Auxiliary Se: This is needlessly dangerous, so of course you’re first in line to try it

Tertiary Se: Put on that Armani/Versace because you’re gong grocery shopping

Inferior Se: I guess you owe it to yourself to have sex this year

Dominant Ni: Life is overrated, deconstructing the fabric of existence is where it’s at

Auxiliary Ni: During the the Lewinsky scandal in the late 90’s, you jokingly said “Hillary will get back at him by becoming president herself one day”

Tertiary Ni: You just now, out of nowhere, decided to knock down every wall in your apartment so you can have a yourself a kickass loft

Inferior Ni: You woke up this morning deciding you want to become president in the near future. As you Googled “What is the difference between Democrats and Republicans?”, you got sidetracked by a hookup on Tinder

Dominant Ne: You just gave a friend a two hour monologue on the history of Imperial Japan because they asked you if they should buy a Toyota

Auxiliary Ne: You’ve never made it to season 3 of anything

Tertiary Ne: You can can assess where your friends and family are going with their lives…..through astrology of course. And you just can’t resist an on-line quiz that tells you about your personality based on your eye color

Inferior Ne: Screw it! You’re gonna wear that fedora non-ironically. You only live once, after all

Dominant Fi: If there was such a thing as “the chosen one” in real life, you’re totally convinced it would be you

Auxiliary Fi: You display the same burning passion as historical civil rights defenders do…..when someone insults a TV show you like

Tertiary Fi: You appointed yourself as the “This is wrong” police at your workplace

Inferior Fi: You once shook your head in disapproval and said “What’s this world coming to…..?” when watching the news. That was the weakest 7 seconds of your life

Dominant Fe: You call up bathroom tissue companies to ask if you can adopt the baby and puppy that were featured in their last commercial

Auxiliary Fe: You wanted people to like and share your opinions if they agreed, way before Facebook ever came along

Tertiary Fe: You’ve mastered the art of making people believe you are the love of their life in order to get them in bed for a one night stand

Inferior Fe:  You DO apologize sometimes. Like, “I’m sorry that you’re such a *insert insult* ”

Dominant Ti: You have absolutely no qualms about murdering someone who annoys you, except for the whole “possible jail time” thing

Auxiliary Ti: If it gets you exactly what you want, even cheating is fair game

Tertiary Ti: You actually have an idea or two as to why your “check engine” light just appeared, before you hand it over to the mechanic

Inferior Ti: You legitimately have a 100%, purely scientific explanation as to why Sharon is being a bitch right now

Dominant Te: The world is a giant Tetris game for you and you’re the line piece

Auxiliary Te: 90% of the people you know can’t do anything right. The other 10% can, but they are obnoxious as hell about it

Tertiary Te: Every now and then you realize that doing something about it is 100% more effective than complaining about it

Inferior Te: You took out the trash this morning, now you’ll spend countless sleepless nights wondering if you gave yourself up to conformity

[theblackoaksyndicate-deactivate]

Dear Fellow Guys....stop hitting on women at work. Let me explain.

So i work as your friendly underpaid barista and currently we’re having problems with one of our regulars hitting on our women staff members. The first woman he hit one, he wrote a note to her….as in elementary school note passing. Now of course, she’s at work and the model in f&b and retail is that you do everything in your power not to piss off the guest. So in hopes of not causing a scene, she kindly wrote on the note that she appreciate the interest but she’s a lesbian. Now, 1) she shouldn’t have to out herself to a complete stranger all to avoid a bad yelp review. 2) She shouldn’t be forced into a situation where she has to entertain a guests unwanted attentions to avoid at the least, a negative review on yelp.  So once she passes this dude the note, he then starts jokingly exclaiming “I always fall for lesbians” in the middle of our cozy cafe, effectively outing her to anyone within earshot. Now my co-worker isn’t closeted, she’s out and proud etc, etc. However, that doesn’t give someone else the right to disclose her sexuality without her permission, and especially not after he effectively coerced her into outing herself in order to avoid his come-ons.   Another one of our regular guests, hits on one of our baristas on a regular basis. No matter how much she casually brings up her boyfriend. It’s gotten so bad that I’ve had to literally stand in front of her so he can’t force eye-contact with her (Naturally we do this kind of thing in a low-key manner so that we don’t actively piss off guest and thus put our jobs at risk). I’ve had to actively shut down people on behalf of my women co-workers (Nah dude, she’s seeing someone. She’s not interested in that sort of thing. Dude, chill out.) because they simply can’t understand the fact that they are at their jobs and simply just want to get their jobs done and go home. Stop taking advantage of the unequal power dynamics to force her to engage you. She’s seem nice? Of course she is, her job revolves around being nice. She seemed into you? No, I can promise she’s not, she’s doing her job and told me five minutes ago how you were clearly staring down her chest.  “But how am I supposed to let her no I’m interested in her?” you might say. My answer, that’s not my fucking concern. There are plenty of opportunities to meet people in this world that don’t revolve around you forcing them into an uncomfortable position while they’re literally trying to earn a living. Not every person your interested in obligated to entertain that interest.  Simply put, stop being goddam creepers and let people do their goddamn jobs. 

[evilcoyote-deactivated20190311]

Fuck off. Some of us have a hard enough time talking to people without shitheads like you guilting us over it.

[alexandra-erin]

No one’s guilting you over anything. The point of this post is for you to stop doing it, not to do it and feel guilty. If you feel awkward hitting on someone who’s not in a position where she can safely be honest with you or leave if you make her uncomfortable, that’s good. Listen to that awkward feeling. It’s telling you that you’re transgressing a boundary. Now, if you feel like you’re always awkward and always crossing a boundary, then posts like this should be a gold mine. It’s telling you in clear terms where boundaries actually exist and why.

[seriesofnonsequiturs]

[ms-demeanor]

Story time:

There was this dude I knew through a monthly infosec meeting. He knew me and my fiancee and my friends through this meeting and he started coming to the coffee shop while I was working. He took a shine to one of my coworkers. He started asking me when she would be on shift and when I wouldn’t tell him he started showing up every night just in case. So she took on afternoon shifts and he started showing up in the afternoons. So she took morning shifts and he started showing up in the morning. So she started taking random shifts and he started showing up all day, from four thirty am when we opened until close at one am.

The thing is, while this is creepy in hindsight he wasn’t doing anything overtly creepy. The shop billed itself as “Smalltown’s Living Room” and there were a few regulars who hung out all day. And this guy bought endless iced teas and ate all his meals off our menu and bought ice cream for regulars and tipped extravagantly. He must have been spending close to a hundred dollars a day at the shop and never did anything beyond placing his order, chatting for a minute, and sitting in a chair where he could always watch the counter. Sometimes he’d talk to me after I locked up and asked if she liked him and ask me how he could get him to like her and no amount of “dude, it’s not going to happen, she’s not interested” could convince him. “But she’s so nice to me,” he’d say, “she smiles when she sees me and listens when I talk to her. No other girls do that for me.”

The owner felt a little hogtied by the whole thing - the guy hadn’t DONE anything, except spend more money than my coworkers and I made on a shift each day to have the opportunity to see her. At least five hundred a week on product. Almost the payroll of a full-time employee every week. And there was always a ten or a twenty from him in the tip jar at the end of every shift - five or ten dollars that represented about an extra hour’s worth of labor to everyone working there. So my co-worker and I felt bad too - he wasn’t really being THAT creepy, was it worth it to deprive our other co-workers of this extra income? (Spoilers: yes)

After a couple months of this (and yes, it was terrible that it went on for that long) my coworker got a better-paying, stalker-free job at her university and nobody was happier for her than me. It was my stupid bullshit that had infected her life and if I hadn’t told this acquaintance to swing by the coffee shop sometime she wouldn’t have had to deal with being scared and tense and having to hold a brittle smile every day at work just so that five or ten would reliably show up, so that someone’s hours wouldn’t get cut because of the dip in sales.

And when she left this guy was crushed. Didn’t show up for a month. Then he started coming in again. Started talking to me about how heartbroken he was, hanging out for my entire shift and thanking me for being such a good listener and marveling over the fact that my fiancee, his friend didn’t appreciate me the way I deserved. He’d follow me out on my lunch break and sit at my table. Eventually I went to the Smalltown Police Department and asked what I would need for a restraining order.

“Well, have you told him in clear words that he is not to speak to you and to leave you alone?”

“I can’t, he’s a customer and he only speaks to me in front of other customers.”

“Well, unless you tell him to cut off contact and he violates that there’s nothing we can do.”

And that was the real nastiness of this trick - always being in front of other customers. When you’re on register you can’t tell a customer never to speak to you again then casually move on to the next person in line. When you’re getting a muffin out of the pastry case you can’t tell a customer “go away and never come back” in front of some soccer mom who believes the customer is always right. You can drown someone out with a blender or an espresso machine, but only temporarily. There was a cubbyhole where we put our purses under the register - eventually it got to the point that if I saw him through the windows I’d let my coworker know then crawl into it to hide. Sometimes I’d spend half a shift doing dishes and making sandwiches in the back where he couldn’t follow me. At least we’d never run out of clean mugs, right?

It was too much. I told my fiancee and a couple other infosec friends what he was doing. He’d stopped coming to the meetings months before over a tiff with another dude so they weren’t seeing him. The had jobs to go to, they didn’t have the time to sit at a coffee shop with me all day. So they took a day off work in the middle of the week and when this guy followed me outside on my lunchbreak I texted them that he was there with me. I didn’t respond to anything that he said during that lunch, I only said “I don’t want to talk to you anymore, please leave me alone.” I said it quietly, but I said it in clear words, per what the police department had told me. He continued to talk while I continued to look at my book and try to eat my food when my fiancee and his friend showed up and joined us at the table. My fiancee (who is, by the way, over six and a half feet tall and built like a fridge) sat down next to him, our other friend sat down on the other side. They both very casually asked what he’d been up to recently. He didn’t say anything, just bit his lip, glared at me, and stormed off. He never came back to the coffee shop.

He DID email a friend of mine to rage about how I’d broken his heart and lied to him and misled him and sent mixed signals - how it was so nasty and two-faced to be smiling and nice one minute and turn on him the next, how he thought we had a connection, and why would I spend so much time listening to him and laughing at his jokes and smiling at him otherwise?

For two months nothing happened, then he showed up at the infosec meeting and as my fiancee and I were getting into the car to leave he charged at us and started trying to hit my (once again, goddamned enormous) fiancee and trying to push past him to come at me. This guy was about five ten and not terribly strong, and while we were scared we didn’t want to fucking KILL him, so my fiancee just sort of knocked him down instead of having a serious fight. The guy got into his car, rushed around  bunch of us in the parking lot, which was genuinely terrifying because we thought he might try to run someone over, then sped away into the night. We called the cops to file a report of assault. The cops didn’t want to talk to me, said I wasn’t involved in the altercation. They took a statement from my fiancee and two other guys who had been in the parking lot, then took down my number and a note that I claimed he’d been “close” to me. I told them he’d been harassing me but they just said that it wasn’t harassment if he just showed up at my job and didn’t actually DO anything.

Well, it turns out that while we were making our report this guy had driven to our friend’s house and rammed the house repeatedly with his Honda. He completely caved in the garage and tried to charge the living room but was stopped by a reinforced concrete wall. When the cops showed up there he was on the lawn raging about how we were all against him and trying to control him.

I missed all my classes the next day because I went to my college campus police department and said I needed a restraining order. I explained what had happened and their first question was how long I had dated the guy. Why did he think we were dating if I hadn’t been flirting with him? Had I led him on or tried to make it seem like I was interested in him? They escorted me to the women’s violence prevention center on campus and I spent approximately six hours filling out paperwork before the director of the center drove me to the county courthouse and made sure I was granted a temporary restraining order that day. It was made more difficult because I only knew this guy’s first name. At every step I had to reach out to my infosec friends or my fiancee to ask for his address, to check the spelling of his name, to confirm the make and model of his vehicle. This guy had chased my coworker out of a job, been showing up on every one of my shifts for months, and I didn’t know anything about him because to me he was just a customer who was an annoyance that had become a threat. But in his head I was the nice girl he’d had a meet-cute with at a fucking hacker hangout who blossomed into a romance in the goddamned coffee-shop AU he was scripting in his imagination, who spurned this rich, considerate, shy boy in favor of her lunk of a boyfriend who wasn’t good enough for her. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to explain a fifteen-year-old gray-hat hacker meetup to a judge in a way that doesn’t make it sound like you’re selling heroin? Calling it a professional infosec networking group didn’t work well enough to include it on the list of places on my restraining order. He couldn’t come to my coffee shop, my home, or my school but was free to return to the meeting where he’d attacked us that was full of my friends who DIDN’T have restraining orders so long as he left when I showed up.

I hate coffee-shop AUs, in case that isn’t clear. It perpetuates this idea that the person behind the counter is your ONE if only you’re persistent and sweet and generous and bashful enough to keep forcing them to endure your presence in their place of employment.

Look, it sounds fucking shitty to say it but most customer service jobs can be accomplished by machines. Automated phone trees can take the place of receptionists, you can get a latte as good as anything you’d get from a Starbucks out of a machine, cashiers can be replaced by self-checkout. Even bartenders can be replaced by some tubes and buttons if you have enough money to burn. The reason customer service still exists is because it is emotional labor that the customer is paying for. An automated phone tree can’t reassure you that it’ll pass your message along just as soon as possible and that we’ll make sure the tech gets back to you. An automated espresso machine won’t smile at you and ask if you’re having a good day. A self-checkout doesn’t make small talk about how great that ice-cream is or how nice the day is outside. A drink machine may be able to listen to your problems but it won’t say “I feel you,” and tell a funny story to make you feel better. We live in the fucking future, almost everything you could want can be accomplished with an machine an a cellphone. If you’re interacting with a human it’s because you want to interact with a human and you want that human to be nice to you. You are paying for their kindness, for their smiles when their feet hurt and their questions about your day when they haven’t had lunch yet.

Flirting with customer service workers at work, asking them out when they’re on the clock and paid to make you happy, telling them you think they’re attractive and expecting a gushing response - that’s breaking the rules. That’s a lose-lose situation that you’ve set them up for. If they continue to do their job and be nice to you they’re “leading you on” and if they react negatively and ask you to leave or to not speak to them that way it’s “bad customer service.”

A good rule of thumb if you’re thinking about asking someone out or flirting with them is to ask yourself this question: “if do this thing and it makes them uncomfortable can they leave this place without it impacting their livelihood?”

If the answer is “no” and you do it anyway you’re a jackass. That person is trapped. You have cornered them. You have put your desire to flirt with them over their ability to earn a living.

“Oh good, I’ll do it now, when they can’t get away” is not an effective dating strategy. It’s abusive, it’s creepy, and nobody is well-paid enough to put up with unwanted sexual or romantic advances while they’re trying to do their job.

Don’t pull this shit.

[mbti-scenarios]

As an ex-barista, please pay attention to this. I can't tell you how many times random customers would harass me and other female employees. I personally had a guy who would, like above, come in every day and sit and watch the counter. And he would only order anything when he saw that I was on register, and every single time I had to pass him something (ie food, coffee, money), he would go out of his way to caress my hand.

As a survivor of sexual abuse, it would give me a full on anxiety attack every time, and every single time I looked up from behind the counter, he would be staring at me, and would force eye contact.

I spent so much time in the back, baking and washing dishes, that I was repeated berated by my managers.

Now, luckily for me I was in high school and only doing the job for disposable income, and could afford to have the managers annoyed at me to protect my safety. Most people don't have that luxury.

Please, as fellow customers who have the power to protect people working service jobs, speak up. Because likely the person being preyed upon can't.

[infjedi]

HOW BEING “IN THE GRIP” PLAYS OUT IN OUR BEHAVIOR

ESTJ-ENTJ 

Frequent expressions of anger 

Easy loss of control; emotionality 

Inflexibility; unwillingness to consider alternatives 

Domineering, demanding stance 

Withdrawal, avoidance of others 

Conviction that others dislike them 

Exaggerated, negative pronouncements with no data to back it up 

Hypersensitive to emotions (in self and others) 

Internal arguments with oneself 

Taking comments as personal criticisms 

ISFP-INFP 

Cynicism, distrust and disappointment 

General and global negativity; criticism of others 

A martyr attitude 

Depression, hopelessness 

Alternating active and passive aggression 

Loss of confidence and sense of competence in self and others 

Hypersensitive and overreacts to imagined slights 

Critical judgments of incompetence in self and others 

Precipitous action 

Combative, lawyer-like tone of voice 

ISTP-INTP 

Becoming upset (expressed or unexpressed) 

A profound sense of alienation and psychological distance from others 

Fear of permanently losing control of feelings and emotions 

Passive-aggressiveness 

A complaining, pouting tone 

Hypersensitivity to signs that they are ignored, disregarded or disliked 

Slowness, vagueness, distractibility 

Logic emphasized to an extreme 

Upset over other’s lack of attention to need for space 

Cutting and sarcastic judgments 

Forget things, misplace objects 

Disorganized and unproductive  

ESFJ-ENFJ 

Negativity and pessimism 

An over controlling, rigid approach 

Insensitivity, coldness, short temper 

Withdrawal, depression 

Self-doubt, conviction of own incompetence 

Inefficiency, scatteredness 

Feeling unappreciated, taken for granted 

Pressure to conform to some view with which they disagree 

All or nothing judgments based on irrelevant data 

Search for absolute, ultimate truth 

Excessive criticism 

ESTP-ESFP 

Reading negative implications between the lines 

Withdrawal, distancing from others 

Looking for meaning in trivial events or comments; seeming “slightly paranoid” 

Sense of incompetence at work and at home 

Distractibility, “spinning one’s wheels” 

Chronic anxiety and sense of impending doom 

Fantasizes of impending disasters and dire possibilities 

Grandiose, cosmic visions that are out of touch with reality 

Internal confusion 

INTJ-INFJ 

Intense anger, agitation, irritability, fatigue 

Overdoing sensory activities — eating, cleaning, repairing, exercising 

Physical stress symptoms such as muscle tension 

Seeing external details as major obstacles that impede progress 

Obsessive attention to perceived sources of stress; difficulty refocusing attention 

Sleeplessness due to persistent reviewing of problems 

Scattered, disorganized and out of sorts 

Obsessive focus on data, facts and details 

Adversarial attitude towards the outer world 

ISTJ-ISFJ 

Global negativity and pessimism 

Alternation between accommodating others’ requests and withdrawing or resisting 

Blaming, accusing others 

Decreased efficiency and productivity 

Sleepless nights; obsessive thinking about problems and catastrophes 

Shut down; do no work for extended periods, then become depressed 

Loss of ability to classify and organize facts and details 

Uncharacteristically spontaneous, thoughtless and impulsive 

ENTP-ENFP 

Passive-aggressiveness 

Work harder, longer, less effectively 

Worry, chronic anxiety 

Withdraw, shut down, avoid people 

Generate possibilities with no data and no follow-through 

Extremes of both emotion and activity level 

Loss of enthusiasm and motivation 

Feelings of sadness and despair 

Tunnel vision 

Picky, upset about little things; irritable and cranky

x

[sensa-tion]

Te in all four positions

Dominant: *Goes to school/work* AW YEAH I RUN THIS SHIT *does repetitive and formulaic tasks to improve their grades/earn money* MUTHAFUCKA I’M BALLIN *friend tries to make lunch plans with them* NOT NOW BITCH I’M WORKIN *fantasises about being in a position of unquestioned authority*

Auxiliary: It’s Friday night, time to partay *shuts themselves in their room* *pours a glass of wine* *starts studying/working on something for school or work/moving closer to their goal of watching every episode of a certain tv series*

Tertiary: *Is most of the way into a task* must. believe. in. self. *thinks about all the people they’re trying to make proud* MUST. BELIEVE. IN. SELF.

Inferior: Perhaps I shall do something productive today *recycles a couple plastic water bottles and messages a friend they haven’t talked to in a while* #werk #motivation #getshitdone

[16personalities-and-a-cat]

MBTI Types being insulted

INTJ

ENTJ

INTP

ENTP

INFJ

ENFJ

INFP

ENFP

ISTJ

ESTJ

ISTP

ESTP

ISFJ

ESFJ

ISFP

ESFP

[elasmotheriumfortytwo]

To my fellow INxJs:

Do the thing. Even if something could go wrong. Even if something will go wrong.

We can work with mistakes.  We can build upon mistakes.  We learn from them, draw inspiration from them.  We grow. We can do nothing if we never even start.

[mr-entj-deactivated20170125]

NTJ Problem #5

ENTJ/INTJ (objective Te statement, not boasting): “I’m fucking amazing at [insert skill here].”

The other types: “Wow, you’re arrogant and egotistical.”

ENTJ/INTJ (objective Te statement, not fishing for compliments): “I’m fucking awful at [insert skill here].”

The other types: “Aww, omg no you’re not! I’m sure you’re great at it.”

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Telling apart the NPs

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INFP/INTP: Both place a huge deal of importance on their individuality. And by “huge”, I mean it is often the core of their existence. The difference is that INTPs don’t care whether this is reciprocated or not. Hell, if it isn’t, it just makes them want to put more emphasis on it. INFPs however will have a secret need for their ideals to be validated in some way “This is who I am and I want you to understand or least accept it”. INTPs will actually prefer things to remain impersonal. INFPs may find more of a need to influence others. It is not to be mistaken for Fe however, but merely their dominant Fi wanting to be appreciated for what it is. 

INFP/ENFP: Both are extremely idealistic in nature, although prefer to just show it rather than concertize it through a system like their NJ counterparts. INFPs however, tend to be more “aggressive” about their beliefs, stick with them even if it means being ostracized by others. ENFPs will find a great need to share their beliefs with others, or else it can make them diminish in value. This may make INFPs come off as more “true” to themselves than ENFPs, however ENFPs are better skilled at social navigation and therefore may propagate their values more successfully than INFPs even if they have to be more chameleon-like in nature to do so. 

INTP/ENTP: Anyone who is accustomed to the MBTI will know that ENTPs are extremely notorious for their “rebellious” thinking and ruffling others through their hard questioning. Interestingly enough, INTPs are not so famous for this, even though most of them will say that they very much feel like this is a key component to their personality, probably even moreso than than ENTPs. This is because through their inferior Fe, INTPs find it mentally draining to express their views on things to others, let alone convince them of such. ENTPs through their extroverted personalities, will be much more flexible in that area, and therefore, people will hear them out better. They will also show a tendency to listen to other people’s opinions, soak them up, analyze it and just maybe, even be swayed by them. Something that INTPs seem practically immune to, making them seem much more intense in conserving their own views of the truth. 

ENTP/ENFP: Dominant Ne first and foremost manifests in endless curiosity and questioning and thus both these types will lead their lives through these habits. The difference being that ENFPs feel personally involved in anything and everything they encounter and therefore will often wonder “Does it make sense to me and how I feel about things?” ENTPs however, are more detached and impersonal in nature, therefore wanting to figure things out only for intellectual stimulation. And this applies to people as well “What makes that person tick? Or happy?………lemme try something and we’ll see……” ENFPs may also ask themselves the same questions but with a more “attached” point of view and therefore upsetting someone for their own insight on them will often be off limits. Instead they prefer to understand the emotional core of others and may instead ask questions like “Why is this person ticked off by what I just said?” and these can’t be explained through impersonal data like the ENTP would, but rather through understanding the person’s inner value system and therefore, developing a more empathetic view towards them, even if values don’t match, which may come off as Fe on the surface.

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Interesting

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🌚 why you should not be friends with any of the types 🌚

DISCLAIMER: i feed on stereotypes so pls do not be hurt of the feelings ALSO DISCLAIMER: salt

isfj: every cookie they bake is laced with unspeakable sorrow. you are obese. dudley dursley looks waifish next to you. you cannot move except to raise cookies to your mouth. they emerge from the kitchen with more. they smile. 

esfj: they have too many other friends who adore them too much. you are reduced to fighting in the hunger games with all the esfj’s other friends.

istj: they are fluffy friends who care about you. you plan a dinner to thank them. you ask them, “saturday sound okay?” crossing a slot off their planner, they reply, “for 1 hour, 42 minutes, and 17 seconds, i will be at your leisure.”

estj: like an amoeba they absorb you. at first you protest, but soon you find yourself getting brainwashed and drawn, fibre by slow fibre, into their army of mindless minions.

infp: they are super nice lil worms, but have you ever thought to ask them why they always wear that one oversized extra-baggy jacket? the pockets are full of knives. and old grudges

enfp: they become like a sister to you then they leave you and move to singapore with two weeks’ notice. 0/10 would not recommend

infj: they wear so much black eyeliner that you’re never really sure what they’re thinking. which is probably good, because you probably don’t want to know what they’re thinking. (psst they’re reading your mind)

enfj: do you really want to be suffocated with hugs? cause that’s how you get suffocated with hugs

istp: you see them leaning on a graffiti-ridden wall. you say “hey howve you been–” silence. behind their sunglasses you detect a flicker as of some long-sleeping dragon awakening to spit a first tentative lick of flame. you back away.

estp: you are reduced to a sidekick and a wingman, watching with tears in your eyes as the estp takes everything you love. you can never be cooler than them. you will be a footnote in the annals of coolness.

isfp: they wish to understand the meaning of life, and that is a quest upon which they must embark alone.

esfp: you’re not good enough for them. you are not worthy to share the space on the yoga mat which is their sole possession in the whole wide world. that’s it. that’s the only reason

intp: at 2 AM your phone buzzes. you pick it up groggily. the notification from the intp reads: “Remember the Alamo!” you text back “what the fuck”. there is no reply. only silence. only the void.

entp: they trick you into telling them your deepest, darkest secret. then they make puns about it. layers upon layers of puns. onion puns. save me im drowning

intj: like diogenes, they prefer you to not approach them lest you stand in the way of their sunlight complete solitude. unlike diogenes, they live in a fortified stronghold with a crocodile-filled moat.

entj: their laugh is just really creepy. like, on a scale of one to megalomaniac, RUN WHILE YOU STILL CAN

[mbti-scenarios]

When INTPs meet closely related MBTIs

INTJ: Hey.

INTP: You're like me, except you're organized.

ENTP: Hey

INTP: You're like me, except you actually get things done.

ISTP: Hey

INTP: you're like me, but somehow even less emotionally receptive.

INFP: Hey

INTP: you're like me, except you can feel things.

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ISTJ: Can I tell you a secret?

ENTP: I wouldn’t recommend it, no.

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INFP X INTJ conversations

INFP: we are such polar opposites.

INTJ: what you're nice and I'm an asshole?

INFP: ...you know how on the outside you're an asshole but on the inside you're all squishy and stuff?

INTJ: *silent agreement*

INFP: I'm the opposite of that. On the outside I'm all squishy but on the inside I'm a total asshole.

INTJ: *silent agreement*

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MBTI Types + WikiHow articles.

This has probably been done before but hey, I didn’t see it, so I’m doing it myself.

ISFP

ESFP

ISTP

ESTP

ISTJ

ESTJ

ISFJ

ESFJ

INFJ

ENFJ

INTJ

ENTJ

INTP

ENTP 

INFP

ENFP

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Why would an ISTP ever want to quit being sarcastic?

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Because sometimes inferior Fe kicks in.

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Fe: You have to stop being sarcastic every once in awhile okay?

Ti: But… But…

Fe: No buts

Ti: wait a minute, you’re inferior stfu

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Eeexactly.

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a moment in history

madison, in an interview: yeah i wrote 29 federalist papers, which is more than we initially agreed on! i'm feeling pretty good! and it will definitely impress alex.

[cut to madison and hamilton meeting to share writings]

madison: so i wrote 29 of these! i'm sorry i went a little bit overboard.

hamilton: it's cool it's cool

madison: how many......did you write

hamilton: not that many

madison: well that's completely understa-

hamilton: 51. i wrote 51

madison: [camera zooms in on his face as he snaps a pencil]