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Q:Something I'm noticing is that the ENTJ is often painted as the "villain" type in fiction, and after looking through many forums, I've found that a lot of people find ENTJs, especially female ENTJs, to be "crazy" and "unmanageable."
Why is this so? What makes the ENTJ more "villainous" than other types, and why are we painted as being so crazy? Many characters that other people type as ENTJs do not seem like ENTJs at all, but rather weaker versions of other types or people who are not fully developed and therefore not fully one type at all. Or, am I wrong, and am I set up to be a world dictator or something?
It’s even broader than just ENTJ (because INTJs get it too) it’s Ni dominants. Ni and Se are opposed and it’s like 10% Ni and 30% Se (the other 60% is the Ne Si opposition).
Really roughly and really generally, Ps tend to get into creative pursuits, which means a lot of SPs, because, like I mentioned above, they are about 30% of the population. So, you’ve got this “I’m an Se dominant and my inferior Ni is bad because it’s directly opposed and really malnourished and so I must squelch any presence of it so I don’t have to deal with it ever,” sort of attitude and that kind of universal struggle (the conflicting parts of us in conflict) is bound to show up somewhere in people’s creative works.
Along with Ni dominants being infrequent, there’s Te that’s a problem. There aren’t more F dominants than T dominants, but they are “louder”. Louder in that they get worked up about things. So the “Te is mean, obnoxious, rude, demanding, crazy, unmanageable, detached,” attitude is, again, manifested in people’s creative works.
And female, ENTJs? Society and Psychology (which pains me to no end) think that women are “Fs (specifically, Fe)” and men are “Ts (specifically Te).” You know, the “women are caring, socially oriented, concerned with the feelings of others,” etc, and “men are logical, rational, have activity oriented relationships,” thing.
Really, it’s just that Fs are those things and Ts are those things. So a girl who is a T, is seen as “contrary, unreasonable, unmanageable,” and things like that because they don’t follow, “F” type schemata, gender roles, display rules, etc. And then even more so, an ENTJ girl who has an inferior F function (Fi) is like “What the heck are these unspoken social rules and political correctness (Fe)?! I don’t understand. Why would I use veiled language (Fe)? That’s not useful or efficient (Te)! And why the heck do you want me to pause and assess the things I like, don’t like, value, believe in all the time (Fi)?! That’s not efficient or impartial at all (Te)!”
You get those weak characters you mentioned when you have a writer that thinks they understand that “type of person,” but they really don’t, so the character ends up being overall inconsistent.
The take home message is that ENTJ abundance is low enough for them to be misunderstood and sometimes even vilified, but fundamentally *distinct, because people recognize the type when they see it. The ENTJ’s functions are functions that are generally associated with males, so, a female ENTJ doesn’t fit the “woman” schemata, and gender roles because their brain functions under “male gender roles.”
*Distinct: Recognizably different in nature from something else of a similar type.
Q:Fictional ENTJs? Thank you.
YOU GUYS ARE FREAKING EVERYWHERE. ENTJs are a very popular archetypal character.
Jeff Winger, Community (I’m sure you knew this. I saw on your blog that you watch Community.)
Barney Stinson, How I Met Your Mother
Tony Stark, Ironman
Lex Luthor, Superman
Erik Lensherr/Magneto, X-Men
Sterling Archer, Archer
Bender, Futurama
Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy
James “Sawyer” Ford, Lost
Sokka, Avatar: The Last Airbender
Donald Draper/Richard Whitman, Mad Men
Q:How often do types change over time? Is this rare, or to be expected?
For example, when I was younger, every test I ever took told me I was an INTJ and the description fit me almost precisely. However, over many years, a lot of life changes and growing up, I find myself getting much more of an ENTJ result. Whenever I read anything about the ENTJ type, I see much more of myself in it than I do in INTJ. (Unless there are things I'm missing about the INTJ type--everything I read about it now seems much, much more introverted and cold than I am now.)
Does this mean that I was an ENTJ in hiding, masquerading as an INTJ, or rather, that my personality has shifted in my growing up enough to alter my result? Or, a third option: is there more to the INTJ personality than I'm realising that still fits with how I am?
Thank you!
First of all, perhaps you should consider reading one of the more reputable type bios for INTJ and ENTJ and see if that’s the culprit.
Second of all, you’re dead-on, you are your type. Always have been, always will be, whether you know what it is or not.
Third of all, the one type that is most like an INTJ is an ENTJ, so you’re very close and have to look at the dominant functions of each. The INTJ is a perceiver, the ENTJ is a judger, and their differing methods of operation come down to that. INTJs want to analyze and examine before acting, ENTJs want to act before they begin to analyze and examine. ENTJs prefer to leap before they look, INTJs prefer to look before they leap, but might not even leap.
