Hm.

[yvannairie]

There's a post going around about the racist, eugenicist origins of MBTI and I've passed it by without reblogging or commenting on it b/c like. Yeah, acknowledging the fucked up origins of my special interest might be the responsible thing to do, but at the same time this is a thing that makes me happy and gives me something to let my thinking revolve around as a way to make myself happy,

and I feel like self-flagellating about how I didn't know I was perpetuating something "bad" would... just be kinda performative, because I am not gonna stop engaging in MBTI analysis, I enjoy it too much, I'm just gonna treat it even more like horoscope when applied to real people and stop bringing it up as a conversation opener.

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[hellofriendsiminthedark]

If you're interested, hbomberguy has a great video essay about why people may find personal meaning in things with problematic origins (and especially origins that are problematic in a way which specifically has Implications for the person finding meaning in it). The video essay itself relates more to fiction and specifically to reinterpretations of HP Lovecraft's stories, but its overall message is very compelling and says a lot of really good things about the function of relating to things and enjoying them which I think would also be up your alley.