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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[deadskie13]

I love horror movies, but only about 10% of them. What I mean is, I think what passes for horror anymore is cheap parlor tricks with blood tossed all about. And so I find myself disliking movies like Saw and Hostel for very much the same reasons you've noted. At any rate, I grew up the only child of a single parent, and my mom never censored me at all, and so I have many fond memories of watching all sorts of movies on my own

[theidolhands]

pardon me for asking, but are you infp?

[deadskie13]

INFP to a fault.

[originalkitsune]

i like classic horror like Nosferatu or the more modern psychodramas. I don't like gore or violence for its own sake. There has to be a reason why it happened even if it is a flimsy reason.

[theidolhands]

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

[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.

[originalkitsune]

You are not missing much not seeing a horror movie. I wanted my 2hrs back after seeing one. :/

Child-like euphemisms make me the most annoyed. There is nothing like your local congress person referring to a woman's vagina as a hoo-hoo in public speech to make your skin crawl.

[theidolhands]

Another thing that ticks me off about horror movies is that we have so many real life horrors that it seems sort of insulting to keep acting like we need to "invent" things to be scared about.

I prefer stuff like 24 Hour Photo or Winter Bone, though I do love me some Fargo or Kill Bill.

[murmur]

hmm, i love horror movies, but more of the old style, actually scary ones. gore doesn't bother me actually as something more forensic does, or like when someone slices their arm. i cringe so hard, because i'm thinking of the blade going into *my* arm. same w/ my ISFP boyfriend, we both cringe at that.

i dunno, i hate hate hate vomit or vomiting but blood doesn't bother me at all. i have a friend who says she tested as INFP (though i tend to think she's not) who cannot stand the sight of blood, even in a movie.

[originalkitsune]

oh i def. don't like vomit, but I can push through and stomach it if i have to to help someone.

[murmur]

yeah i've only done that when i was in college and drinking w/ friends and they got sick. i think i was too drunk to care as much. it was really gross though. i don't know if i could do that now. i think i literally have some sort of vomitphobia, haha.

[rheakurokawa]

my INFP boyfriend faints at the sight of his own blood and gets very weak at the sight of anyone else's. :)

(Saw and Hostel are complete idiotic pointless movies. And i've been a big horror movie fan.)

[originalkitsune]

:3 An ENTP ex of mine is so notorious for fainting at the site of blood. He fainted in a movie theatre once, and he's so big that he fell on a wall and broke through it. The movie theatre patched it up but you can still see a body outline on the patch.

Totes agree.

[rheakurokawa]

hahaha, i can imagine it all hahaha. funny thing is, my boyfriend is also a rather large and muscular guy and by the looks of him you'd expect him to be a bodyguard or something and in reality he's a soft sensitive sweet guy that feels weak at the sight of human blood and can't sleep in a tent because he gets claustrophobic. i actually find all this quite endearing in him :)