IEIs-INFps talking back and "zingers"

[Animal]

I've gotten flack for talking back to those above me for as long as I can remember. I don't do it just for the hell of it either--it's usually in self-defense and only happens after I've been exhaustively provoked. There were many times where I froze up, but I was delivering "zingers" as early as my mother can remember me talking, lol. I remember doing this to my IEI boss and getting a response in like, which on one hand, yeah, ouch, but on the other I felt pretty impressed at how similar we were in that area. My boyfriend is also IEI and I think we both sort of relish the other's "zest" when we're not stepping on each other's toes by accident (and even then, it's sort of a rush!).

I was thinking about this because I just had a minor altercation with an EII who uses the "condemn and escape" method. I ended our interaction in a concise, somewhat pretentious but (I believe) effective PM through a site we both frequent and within minutes after having sent, she turned off the music blaring from her speakers, unlocked her door, closed her laptop and starting doing chores--something she ONLY does when she's feeling really gross or conflicted about something. Usually her EIE friends have this effect on her--I consider it a victory. Through observing (and more than once being on the receiving end of) LIEs and EIEs owning their adversaries this way, I've become quite decent at the written bitch-slap. Could this be type-related though? IEIs, how good are you at coming up with an insightful argument on the spot or in a relatively short time at least, verbally or in writing?

Can you give an example of what you mean? I don't consider myself particularly witty or adept at coming up with zingers. I wish I had that old school British propensity for sardonic repartee ala Oscar Wilde or Winston Churchill.

[JWC3]

Fe is a very defensive IM element isn't it.

[Ningyo]

Can you give an example of what you mean? I don't consider myself particularly witty or adept at coming up with zingers. I wish I had that old school British propensity for sardonic repartee ala Oscar Wilde or Winston Churchill.

Haha, I honestly don't believe that. But uh... I'd have to ask my mom, she's SEI and remembers this stuff better than I do. The earliest example I can come up with is... grade 3, we were doing popcorn reading and the girl who kept getting chosen was stumbling over all the words. She happened to be a bit of a bully (my siblings and I were poor and she would turn other kids on the schoolbus against us) so I took the opportunity to jab at her by suggesting that "the next person that gets called on actually know HOW to read." Said very innocently. I guess it's sort of an ILI statement, lol. And yes, of course I was punished.