SFist: Wikipedia Dumps 'Marina Girls'

Nick Moreau

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:44:20 -0800

The main problem with the article was presenting parts of the stereotype as fact... "The two largest employers of Marina Girls are [[Salesforce.com]] and [http://www.gap.com Gap, Inc]." Unless someone surveyed *every* Marina Girl, to find out where they worked, there's no way to present half of this article as fact. Also it presents common habits of marina girls as if they were thing they do in a mechanical fashion, "On clear sunny days, MGs sunbathe in tiny triangle bikini tops..." not many sunbathe and many wear..., but it enforce the thing as if THEY DO THIS, no questions ask.

Nick Moreau

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:42:40 -0800

Arnaud H

Sun, 19 Mar 2006 19:30:25 -0800

As much as I found that entry amusing, it just didn't belong in Wikipedia. So I'm not sad to see it go, as it will probably end up somewhere else. Maybe on SFist? Hmm...

Pete

Sun, 19 Mar 2006 10:48:29 -0800

The whole "neutral point of view" policy makes me generally uninterested in contributing to Wikipedia, though I do get what they're going for. The removal of the Marina Girl article means I should probably step up my efforts with my (not yet public) San Francisco only Wiki: http://ess-eff.com/Guide/ Jackson, you're welcome to come write the Marina Girl and Mission Hipster articles... even the Pacific Heights one, if you want.

Jackson West

Sat, 18 Mar 2006 17:24:46 -0800

I was lucky enough to be teamed up with some of the Whoo Girls playing water-pistol assassin and hunting, you guessed it, Mission Hipsters. Good times.

violet blue

Sat, 18 Mar 2006 17:20:03 -0800

It should also be noted that so-called "Marina Girls" are so iconic that last year during San Francisco's Halloween celebration there was actually a "Marina Girl" flash mob, calling themselves the "Whoo! Girls". They were mostly comprised of drag queens: here's an excerpt of a post (with photos) I wrote after they crashed a party I was at: "Also Saturday, don't forget the "Whoo Girls", a group of drag queens who showed up to the dominatrix's party along with another group -- a mob of angry villagers led by Frankenstein and Igor. It was quite a party. But the Whoo Girls were all named Katelyn, and were inspired by black drag Katelyn's recent experience in a Mission district bar where she overheard two blonde Marina district girls talk about how they liked to visit the Mission bars because they are "edgy and dangerous". (Meaning, poor and Latino.) So they all dressed like Marina chicklets, and ran around going "Whoooo!" like the women in the Girls Gone Wild videos. Hilarious! They later left and met at a bar with another costumed group of Abe Lincolns who were all gay and calling themselves the "G'abe Lincolns." Post URL: http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2005/11/lips_like_sugar.html Whoo Girls photo: http://tinynibbles.fotki.com/halloween_05/dsc03424.html