I don't think I have as intense problems with seeing people sort characters into Hogwarts houses as you do (I'm still at the rolling eyes and letting it be stage), but I definitely have problems with how often in my life people ask *me* what Hogwarts house I'm in, and then when I tell them I don't feel any particular allegiance because real people don't sort tidily into ambitious/academic/brave/just, and then they nod safely and go "mm, probably a Hufflepuff? Or a Ravenclaw. You like reading."
I have equal problems with the way people refer to they're MBTI type as though this is something objective and inherent about them, not an externally constructed system (not to mention it's based on a bunch of simplistic binaries). When I see in people's sidebar on Tumblr like [name]|23|autistic|bisexual|INFJ and it bothers me that INFJ is being given the same kind of position and those other categories...
I'm expressing myself very badly but I hate categorising people and thus appreciated this post.
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Date: 2019-01-27 00:35 (UTC)I have equal problems with the way people refer to they're MBTI type as though this is something objective and inherent about them, not an externally constructed system (not to mention it's based on a bunch of simplistic binaries). When I see in people's sidebar on Tumblr like [name]|23|autistic|bisexual|INFJ and it bothers me that INFJ is being given the same kind of position and those other categories...
I'm expressing myself very badly but I hate categorising people and thus appreciated this post.