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Walt Disney World Cast Members Now Using ‘Friend’ & Other Gender Neutral Terms to Promote Inclusivity
wdwnewstoday ^ | 07/30/2022 | Katie Francis

Posted on 07/31/2022 7:00:51 AM PDT by Skywise

Walt Disney World Cast Members are now addressing guests as “friend,” rather than sir or ma’am in the latest effort to promote inclusivity.

The neutral “friend” moniker allows Cast Members to address individuals without assuming their gender identity. Similar changes have been made around the resort, such as the switch from “ladies and gentlemen” to “dreamers of all ages” in the pre-fireworks announcements. Some Cast Members had already elected to use “friend” when they address guests, but it has become commonplace over the last few weeks.

In 2021, Disney announced the addition of “Inclusion” as a 5th key, which serve as the guiding principles for company culture. Since then, similar changes, small and large, have been made across the corporation, and the parks have been no exception.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: disney
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So why not just drop the pretense and use the word, "Comrade"?
1 posted on 07/31/2022 7:00:51 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Skywise

Exactly what I was thinking.


2 posted on 07/31/2022 7:01:32 AM PDT by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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To: Skywise
How about..."Hey you....whatever you are"....

no different than using specific pronouns...

3 posted on 07/31/2022 7:03:27 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Skywise

The only smart thing Disney seems to have done since Iger was in charge is not raise the Disney+ price like Netflix and ruin itself.

Otherwise, you don’t often see such a death wise and insane hatred for their customers.


4 posted on 07/31/2022 7:03:32 AM PDT by Houserino
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To: Twotone

Remind me not to take my grandchildren to Disney World.


5 posted on 07/31/2022 7:04:12 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Skywise

No one was ever excluded from Disney World...It’s called...buy a ticket.


6 posted on 07/31/2022 7:04:47 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Sacajaweau
Abd you get extra entertainment included all the time:


7 posted on 07/31/2022 7:06:00 AM PDT by Houserino
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To: Skywise

This will never suffice because it fails the alphabet mafia’s primary objective - submission. They demand that you give up a thousand years of convention in favor of lunacy. Then, when you accede, they’ll demand an entirely new set of nonsensical pronouns.

It’s all designed to be “Heads I win, tails you lose”


8 posted on 07/31/2022 7:08:40 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: Houserino

Well it is the happiest place on earth. SMH


9 posted on 07/31/2022 7:08:43 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Twotone

Ditto.


10 posted on 07/31/2022 7:09:41 AM PDT by madison10
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To: Skywise

Terry Pratchett.

“He was the kind of man for whom the word ‘friend’ had an ominous ring. Such as, ‘so, do you want to live, ‘friend?’’”


11 posted on 07/31/2022 7:09:58 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Skywise

They do seem to be on that path. Yet we can hope that puchback from the public may divert them back to good sense.


12 posted on 07/31/2022 7:10:55 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

Don’t take your grandchildren to Disney World.

I live 2 hours from there and I wouldn’t go if I was given free lifetime access and free transportation.


13 posted on 07/31/2022 7:10:55 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Skywise

C’mon, man!
Brandon will never change


14 posted on 07/31/2022 7:12:40 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Skywise
> Walt Disney World Cast Members are now addressing guests as “friend,” ... <

Thanks for the heads-up. I’m a man. I dress like a man and want to be addressed as a man. Nothing more and nothing less. So I’ve already got my badge ready for my next visit to Disney World.


15 posted on 07/31/2022 7:12:40 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Skywise

My first thought.


16 posted on 07/31/2022 7:14:11 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Skywise

BENDING OVER TO SATISFY THE FEW CIRCUS ACTS THAT CANT CONTROL THEMSELVES OR THIER EMOTIONS


17 posted on 07/31/2022 7:16:09 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nwo )
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To: Skywise

товарищ


18 posted on 07/31/2022 7:20:21 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Skywise

Neutral “friend”

Someone who will kill for you

Al Capone


19 posted on 07/31/2022 7:22:02 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: Skywise

Forcing 99% of the population to deny truth so they won’t offend the other 1%.


20 posted on 07/31/2022 7:23:08 AM PDT by Iron Munro ( Joe Biden - Inventor Of The First New Language since Esperanto)
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