It can be helpful to remember that although there are, on average, innate differences between the sexes, gender is largely culturally constructed.
Helpful reminder on gender/sex continuum(s). Gender seems to have a relatively wide (subtle) band that can rather easily lead to predictive error. Sex seems to have a relatively narrow (gross) band that can be somewhat approximated as binary variable, but retains possibility of continued error based (partly) on social context.
bookworm wrote:This may also cross the fuzzy boundaries of sexual orientation as well in interesting ways...
For sure. It's pretty obvious that homosexual men are no different than heterosexual men in terms of this visual cortex wiring. As a fairly high-sex-drive heterosexual female, I very much like the male body, but the way my bi-sexual male semi-ex-poly-partner likes the male body and/or the female body is extremely different than the way I like the male body. Simple example, highly unlikely that I would have desire to have sex with a man just because he has great arm muscles, even though great arm muscles are my favorite objectified male body attribute. In fact, the image I just mentally generated of a wall with holes through which a number of anonymous men have inserted their arms for my inspection is much more disturbing than erotic to my sensibilities. After I made the dating profile error of describing what I want in a man as "The three I's: Intelligence, Initiative, and b(I) ceps.", almost every guy I met for coffee would feel compelled to roll up his sleeve and flex for my inspection at some juncture. In retrospect, the inclusion of "Initiative" was also an error.
Sometimes ENTPs are also mis-typed as INFJs, because least extroverted extrovert type.
Well in support of this, I also have read several times INFJs being described as the most extroverted introvert type. Personally, I'm not sure how much I resonate with this as an INfJ. I think I come off as fairly warm to people usually, but can also be often pretty quiet and less likely to start up a conversation.
I can also see the mistyping maybe from the fact that both entp and infj sharing intuition as their 1st function and sensing as 4th. Also Fe/Ti as their second/third functions, albeit in different order. A not so accurate personality test actually once spit out entp for me!
I think in many conventional social settings where ENTP is depressed/repressed in Ne, for example PTO meeting, both ENTP and INFJ will exhibit externalized tendency to run from warm to aloof. I didn't realize that I often externalize "aloof" until an ESTJ partner told me that it was my second worst trait (my first worst trait being "chubbiness" *), because it's really more the case that I am feeling bored or compelled towards debate, but attempting to be quietly polite about it. I can warmly offer a climate-change denier a sincere hug on the occasion of the death of his dog, but I can only choose between "quiet aloof" or "semi-obnoxious attempt at obliteration" in conversation with him.
*This was okay, because if I had been equally compelled towards abrasive honesty, I would have suggested (1) Anger and (2) Idiocy as his two worst traits.
*), because it's really more the case that I am feeling bored or compelled towards debate, but attempting to be quietly polite about it. I can warmly offer a climate-change denier a sincere hug on the occasion of the death of his dog, but I can only choose between "quiet aloof" or "semi-obnoxious attempt at obliteration" in conversation with him.