# Ginger or Mary Ann? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 13, 2018, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104 "2018-05-13T23:49:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104/1 "2018-05-13T23:49:06Z")
Poll to follow. As with my [Betty/Veronica poll](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=854056), you can apply whatever criteria you wish. You don’t have to assume that you’re on the island, or that you’re a character from the show. For example, you could imagine that they were rescued and have settled in your neighborhood. Why you’re choosing, or what you’re choosing them for, is up to you. It could be that you’re picking a romantic partner—but maybe you just want a friend. Maybe you dream of an idyllic life on a farm with Mary Ann. Or perhaps you want Ginger to give your screenplay to a director. It doesn’t matter! Stop asking questions and pick one! If you don’t know who Ginger and Mary Ann are, do as a former POTUS suggested and [use the Google](https://youtu.be/90DKubFKwVo). ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104/2 "2018-05-13T23:53:15Z")
Mary Ann makes pies. She can be my new BFF. ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104/3 "2018-05-13T23:54:30Z")
I grew up watching Gilligan’s Island, but I can’t say either one of them were sexually appealing. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104/4 "2018-05-14T00:12:36Z")
Mary Ann all the way. And I see completely through that slut’s girl-next-door shtick. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104/5 "2018-05-14T00:21:54Z")
I’m not really into “types,” but I had to go for Mary Ann, just because the way Ginger was portrayed, she wasn’t really appealing to me. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104/6 "2018-05-14T00:24:23Z")
You left out Mrs. Howell! ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104/7 "2018-05-14T00:28:02Z")
Mary Ann. She’s the girl next door. Looks good in a pair of shorts. Makes pies. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104/8 "2018-05-14T01:00:51Z")
I voted Ginger, but only because I forgot what their names were. It’s been a long time. Anyway, I intended to vote for Mary Ann. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104/9 "2018-05-14T01:09:58Z")
I’m a Ginger man from all the way back. My sexual aesthetic is almost wholly informed by Ginger. And the odd 70s Penthouse magazine. What a woman. Seriously though, Tina Louise was a total knockout, specially in her pinup/Broadway days. Yow. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104/10 "2018-05-14T01:12:05Z")
Both beautiful, but there’s never been any answer for me but Mary Ann. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104/11 "2018-05-14T01:19:33Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Mary Ann makes pies. She can be my new BFF. > [@Magiver](#): > > Mary Ann. She’s the girl next door. Looks good in a pair of shorts. Makes pies. But she only knows how to make coconut cream pies. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104/12 "2018-05-14T01:40:10Z")
> [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](#): > > I’m a Ginger man from all the way back. My sexual aesthetic is almost wholly informed by Ginger. And the odd 70s Penthouse magazine. What a woman. > > Seriously though, Tina Louise was a total knockout, specially in her pinup/Broadway days. Yow. There’s no accounting for taste, but I just can’t see preferring the Ginger portrayed on G.I. over the Maryann portrayed there. That whole Hollywood starlet, high maintenance look is just a turn-off to me. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104/13 "2018-05-14T02:06:09Z")
> [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](#): > > Seriously though, Tina Louise was a total knockout, specially in her pinup/Broadway days. Yow. I voted Mary Ann but then I went and looked at some old Tina Louise pics. You’re not wrong. However, the poll is Ginger vs Mary Ann and not (any era) Dawn Wells vs Tina Louise so I stand by my choice as I liked Mary Ann better and thought she was cuter on the show. Between the two actresses at their ‘prime’, it would be a much harder choice and I may flip. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104/14 "2018-05-14T02:18:27Z")
Ginger. Never been a question for me. I mean, I’m not gonna kick either out of bed these days for eating crackers (I mean, were I single), but I’ve always been a Ginger fan from my on-the-cusp-of-pubescence-days, so no matter how much Mary Ann has been the favorite for the past few decades, I’m a Ginger man through-and-through. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104/15 "2018-05-14T02:41:23Z")
Mary Ann, more approachable and lower maintenance. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104/16 "2018-05-14T02:49:29Z")
Mary Ann. Besides being prettier (to my tastes, ymmv), she was also an absolute freak in bed. And was just plain more pleasant to be around when not engaged in being my lust receptacle, 'cause it’s not always about just the sex, you see. What? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104/17 "2018-05-14T03:55:19Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > You left out Mrs. Howell! Mmm. Lovey, you vixen you. What happens on Gilligan’s Island, stays on Gilligan’s Island. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104/18 "2018-05-14T04:00:41Z")
Mary Ann. I always did better with farm girls than city sluts. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104/19 "2018-05-14T04:13:58Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > But she only knows how to make coconut cream pies. 😃 Only because of the ingredients on hand. It a proper kitchen I bet she could whip up any kind. Wait…wasn’t there banana cream pies available on the island, too? ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104/20 "2018-05-14T05:22:50Z")
Mary Ann all the way. Ginger was a bimbo.\* \*Not that there’s anything wrong with that. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ginger-or-mary-ann/814104.md?page=2)