No. This is actually fairly good. In taking Myers-Briggs tests in the fast, I can sometimes switch in between INTJ and INTP, and on two occasions I've also gotten ENTJ. (I tend to get a higher Extravert score when the test allows for more leeway between seeking social events and staying home; I like to do both some of the time.)
Reading a general description of INTJ is fairly prescriptive, though once it goes into any particulars, it's bound to miss, get things wrong, and not get the whole picture. Which is fine; if everyone was one of sixteen carbon copies, I couldn't imagine how I'd find conversation remotely interesting. So it's nice as a fuzzy snapshot, and you can vaguely tell from it I'm a bear (or whatever).
I went to the library yesterday. I had this ambitious plan of reading, oh, two or three books and then checking out a couple of more. My attention span wasn't that solid for what I ended up reading half of (Faulkner), so I took a lot of time looking around. During my wanderings in the nonfiction stacks upstairs, I hit upon an interesting book. Feminism: Opposing Viewpoints.
I was intrigued enough to read a little bit into it. Meant for young adults, it was a series of collections that provide "both sides" of an issue. So I started reading, scoffing at some of the arguments, mentally storing away the others, and analyzing the center of two opposing viewpoints, which often hid several other viewpoints that weren't merely intermediaries, but were askew. Women undeniably have problems of inequal treatment in this world. So do men. But one can't say that women need help on one side only to have it countered with descriptions of men needing help on the other. It can't be that one side always has it perfectly and another always requires aid. Could it be that both ail at once, and that both are the cause of maligned gender roles? They never did explain that mainstream feminism does seek to enable women, but it doesn't mean that they'll oppose helping men. (Sometimes certain radicals will take the stance, but really that's no different than having certain Christians oppose helping Muslims. And we shouldn't judge a movement on its radical fringes or everyone would be damned.)
Anyway, after that I got a few books.
Monstrous Regiment, Terry Pratchett. (I was influenced by an easily accessible dust jacket flap.)
Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman. (I can't get enough of him.)
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner. (I abandoned this book halfway through last year due to a time crunch.)
Male/Female Roles: Opposing Viewpoints. (I was sufficiently entertained.)
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