INTP playing at an eccentric Jane Goodall

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Being an intense INTP - otherwise known as the Logician personality type - and an aspie, I have this habit of breaking things down into the sum of their parts, mostly for the sake of self-entertainment. Lately, I've been done this more in terms of social systems.

And, since my brain activity is in its usual "perpetual motion" setting, I've seen the basic units of these systems - namely the people composing them - do their thing. And, in doing so, I can't help but fit every person I deal with into some sort of literary archetype. This is especially true at work.

I'm serious when I say this: there's a catty gay guy, a younger naive gay guy, the spinster boss (basically a lady Michael Scott), an actual, real-life sassy African girl, a Philipino everyman and a fat dunning-krugeresque cheery office manager who took the job nobody wanted. And, all together, they make a rich story structure in the production that is their weekly, Monday to Friday, five-act work life.

I do this with a lot of other stuff too. I love having a brain reads a lego-structure architecture to create a sensible view of the world. It is DAMN comforting.

Your apparent propensity for stereotyping people seems quite unpleasant to me, particularly since literary archetypes don't typically include ethnic/national origin.

I don't see this as a sensible view of the world at all. Literary archetypes are for literature, not making sense of real life.

^These aren't literary archetypes; they are homophobic, sexist, and racist stereotypes.

Ah, I see. I welcome this interpretation as I'm still learning these things as time goes forward. I'm still working these socially-conscious muscles.

If you're genuinely interested in learning, here are some helpful insights and explanations of why the "sassy black woman", for example, is a negative stereotype to be avoided:

https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/06/bl ... ereotypes/

http://time.com/5191637/sassy-black-woman-stereotype/

I hope that helps!

This is dangerous behavior not only for the reasons described above but, if they find this and read this at your workplace, you could really be in a lot of trouble.