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Serena Joy Waterford MBTI Personality Type

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What personality type is Serena Joy Waterford? Serena Joy Waterford is an INTJ personality type in MBTI, 1w2 - sx/sp - in Enneagram, in Big 5, in Socionics.

I'm mid-second season, and I don't think she's an ESTJ. From the way I look at it, her tertiary Fi pops up time and time again. I don't think she values Si either. It's tempting to see it so, since her stance looks reactionary from the point of view as we look at it. However, I think it's the opposite from HER perspective. Her desire for traditional family is driven by understanding of fertility decline and what it means for existence of mankind in the long-term. INTJ can be religious, and if they happen to be Enneagram 1, then they get anal about what 'good' means. She enjoyed drafting up strategies for the 'new' society. Though, it is a point that she didn't realize that being the ideological driver of creating Gilead would neuter her, so I guess, good argument if you want to claim not Ni. Though, I would argue, inferior Se can sometimes mean you don't see the obvious standing right in front of you. On another note, is it strange that I don't hate her? I think she's fundamentally flawed, damaged human being, but I don't believe she's evil by design. Rather, all her acts of cruelty come as a reaction to pain. There's a whole lot written on the psychology of 'mean' girls, and there's a whole lot about pain and rage. She fits the profile. I'm rather rooting for her to redeem herself and grow. Much as I've done for Theon Greyjoy in ASOIAF/GOT. And I enjoy, from a viewer perspective, her dynamic with June/Offred. They're both women who refuse to give up their own power and agency. Part of why they hate each other is that they're not fundamentally as unlike as they'd like to think. They're differences are rather of the world view kind, not the cognition kind. And they do seem to bond, fleetingly, when they run into shared enemies, and get into their power to work together, rather than against. There is this unspoken understanding between them.

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