I actually would agree with PGage's "developmental" supposition. Back In the mid-1980s when I was a pre-teen watching "Gilligan's Island" reruns in the afternoon on a local independent station, I was more attracted to Ginger -- she was the more obviously sexy of the two, so she was easier for my still-developing brain to latch onto.
As I got older, the scales fell from my eyes, and I could see the considerable charms of Mary Ann. (And it seems so obvious now: Gilligan, the pies she keeps making you are supposed to be a signal!) > On Dec 31, 2020, at 7:58 AM, Tom Wolper <twol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 4:45 PM PGage <pga...@gmail.com > <mailto:pga...@gmail.com>> wrote: > And I was always a Mary Ann guy... > > When I was a kid most boys my age were strongly Ginger, then sometime in my > 20s the tide shifted toward Mary Ann. I was never sure if that was a > developmental (guys gradually maturing out of a sex pot obsession) or > cultural (tide turning away from the more artificial, manufactured persona > towards a putatively more natural and honest appeal) effect. > > I'm surprised there was a pro-Ginger faction. I always thought the Ginger vs > Mary Ann question was extremely biased toward Mary Ann because Ginger was > aloof, self centered, and high maintenance. Mary Ann was independent and > accessible. > > I also Ginger vs Mary Ann came at the end of a singular White cultural > phenomenon. From watching movies from the decades preceding the 1950s we see > diversity in what was seen as sexy in White women. When Marilyn Monroe > emerged it's like she generated a gravity field around her. For the culture > her persona defined sexiness and women were seen as sexy when trying to be > like her. That template didn't break until the mid-60s when youth culture > promoted other looks as sexy. Ginger was Monroe style and Mary Ann was closer > to the new sensibility. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiFOS3vELzc2Zo_6a7-HEV%2Bo5bs2HELwhkNhQNtt1OAtYg%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiFOS3vELzc2Zo_6a7-HEV%2Bo5bs2HELwhkNhQNtt1OAtYg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/40F91E5A-D73D-495D-825D-B85509868F8E%40ellwanger.tv.
