Category: not a typing post

” Yes, okay, point, but I think she’s an ISTP. ” Watching istp videos and can see istp for Zooey. Wow, she’s a hard one.

Yeah, I’m starting to see a pattern with the ISTPs where a bunch of them have a public persona that’s sort of a performative gender thing – they take on all the characteristics of that gender to the fullest, sometimes to almost caricature levels.  (And by performance, I don’t mean to imply there’s anything disingenuous about it – while the men are generally lauded, the women tend to have a polarizing effect and take a lot of flak for being ‘artificial’ – but I think it’s just a particular style of self-expression.)

Under performative masculinity, you’d have Nick Offerman, Tom Selleck and Clint Eastwood, for example.  For Tom and Clint, I think the mythos of them as the ‘manliest of men’ is mostly due to their characters (I find them pretty different in interviews), but I don’t really remember Nick turning it off.

Lady Gaga and Ryan Ross (briefly) would be examples of performative androgyny, and you’d have Zooey Deschanel working the performative femininity (I’m kind of wondering about Marilyn Munroe now, too).

There’s also crossover with this into fashion and specifically costuming. Cindy Sherman comes to mind,

in particular.  (I’m also kind of wondering if Eiko Ishioka is an ISTP -either that or ESTP-

but it’s hard to tell since English isn’t her first language.)

when i took the test it said i was an infj but i identify much more with an enfp??

If you’re testing for introversion, you’re probably going to ask questions about how much and how often you get out and see people.  If you do not see a lot of people, whether you’re an introvert or not, you will test as more introverted.

I think probably if you’re an ENFP testing as more of an J than a P, probably you have pretty decent Te, and are excellent at keeping yourself organized and focused.  P types like structure too!

MBTI tests ask you about what you are doing, so if you are in a situation where you are not doing the most typical things for your type (and you also keep answering that you prefer doing things in this way because it’s working well for you right now), you are less likely to test as that type.