Mad Women

[vilakins]

From communicator, a quiz about which Mad Men-era woman I'd be. As for Mad Men, damn, that's a good series. I'm amazed at how much I love something that's portrays such a horribly sexist society.

Your result for Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz...

You Are an Ingrid!

You are an Ingrid -- "I am unique"

Ingrids have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.

How to Get Along with Me

• Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.
  
• Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself.
  
• Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.
  
• Though I don't always want to be cheered up when I'm feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.
  
• Don't tell me I'm too sensitive or that I'm overreacting!
  

What I Like About Being an Ingrid

• my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level
  
• my ability to establish warm connections with people
  
• admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life
  
• my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor
  
• being unique and being seen as unique by others
  
• having aesthetic sensibilities
  
• being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me
  

What's Hard About Being an Ingrid

• experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair
  
• feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don't deserve to be loved
  
• feeling guilty when I disappoint people
  
• feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me
  
• expecting too much from myself and life
  
• fearing being abandoned
  
• obsessing over resentments
  
• longing for what I don't have
  

Ingrids as Children Often

• have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original games
  
• are very sensitive
  
• feel that they don't fit in
  
• believe they are missing something that other people have
  
• attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.
  
• become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood
  
• feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents' divorce)
  

Ingrids as Parents

• help their children become who they really are
  
• support their children's creativity and originality
  
• are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings
  
• are sometimes overly critical or overly protective
  
• are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed
  

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A lot of that, especially the childhood section (those first three: totally), is actually fairly accurate.

Comments

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Ah. I got that one, too. And it's a stunningly accurate description of me; I'm quite surprised.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

A lot was me but for the tendency to dark moods.

I'm beginning to suspect the descriptions are based on the Enneagram. This one sounds very 4. I usually come out as a mix of 4, 5, and 7 on that though, and don't much like the system; I prefer MBTI.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you were spared the dark moods; most of the female INTPs I know have them. I do think it's harder for us to find a place to fit in than it is for our male counterparts.

And yes, I agree about preferring MBTI over the Enneagram. MBTI is much more useful, much more detailed, and not focused as much on negatives. INTPs often map onto the Enneagram 5; I'm 5w4 myself, so your numbers make perfect sense.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I can feel down, but I've never felt suicidal like most 4s seem to. I went to an Enneagram day with a friend who wanted company, and that aspect really came out from the panel of 4s: depression, suicidal feelings. I decided I could't possibly be a 4. I seem to be a mix or 4 and 5, but with some 7 as I prefer to ignore depressing things.

But yes, it does concentrate on the negative (what one fears most) and seems to me less defined and analytical than MBTI. Re that, Greg and I are both INTPs and have heaps in common, but we're still different. I can't live without fiction, whereas though he'll read a novel that appeals (e.g. the Falco novels at the moment), he doesn't need to. In fact he usually reads books about software and that would bore me silly.,. He's definitely a 5. :-)

And oh yes to not fitting in. :-(

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

That sounds like me, though I deal with anything that starts looking like a 'dark mood' by picking up a book. Or chocolate. :-p

Your card arrived, thank you. It's your best yet. ^_^

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I find a book will always make me forgot myself.

Really? Thanks! It was certainly a lot more work than the previous ones: nine separate pictures brought together.