Fluids & Violence

[originalkitsune]

I was noticing something else in the differences between many XNFJs and XNFPs as I was going to the movies with my friends a few weeks ago. It is easier for my XNFJ friends to see gory-horror than to see actual bodily fluids on actual humans or to talk about bodily fluids on actual humans. Many of my INFP and ENFP friends are what I call "Rated

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[theidolhands]

As an infp, you described me to a T on this matter.

I was (and to an extent still am) quite taken with filmed surgery, real trauma centers (animal and human), and even COPS which could contain real life violence (my family tolerated these things, but did not feel the same), again there is a point to that. I was never phased by blood, and still cannot figure out women who are, as the majority of them would see it every single month. I'm that soul who will usually want to look at your scars. This has come marvelously in handy for my mother, as she can show me anything after procedures and get an honest opinion (even if she can't bear to look herself). I also have to tell her when she can look again at a movie screen. *sigh*

However, gore for the sake of gore, is a type of pornography. And kinks are personal, you dig them or you don't in most cases. I do not, I doubly do not like anything posing as serious material and serving me porn. If I want porn, I know where to find it and it won't pretend to be something it isn't. It also won't embarrass me or squick out my companions when we're all sitting in a room together.

My favorite gore was mostly Stephen King and specific manga such as Parasyte. Barefoot Gen is one of the most violent things I've read and there is nothing in there for sensationalism or entertainment, it was historic.

[theidolhands]

I think our nature to "process" or "filter" things keeps us from being overwhelmed by any emotion in those cases. Our sensitivity and healing natures probably get the better of us too.

Yet, if you get us on a subject that we have no sense of humor on...that might be the end of a friendship or we might shut down for days at a time to deal with our emotions. Funny.

[originalkitsune]

What one of my enfp buds postulates is that we are so empathic that if we connect with any of the characters getting hurt, our brains freak out as if it were actually happening in real life. So for her anyways, what happens on tv is "real".

[originalkitsune]

Fascinating! I was curious how many people might actually have these traits. And it is weird i myself am some kind of outlier on some of what I propose.