Disney removes "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls" greeting from Magic Kingdom fireworks show

cbs.com ^ | 07/02/2021 | GREG CANNELLA

[massmike]

The Magic Kingdom fireworks show at Walt Disney Resort in Orlando, Florida, returned Thursday after being suspended for more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic — but some parts of the show have changed since 2020.

That includes a modification to the introductory greeting of the "Happily Ever After" fireworks that removes the phrase "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls."

Disney announced in April that it was adding "Inclusion" as a fifth key component of its customer service. "We want our guests to see their own backgrounds and traditions reflected in the stories, experiences and products they encounter in their interactions with Disney," the company said.

The original introduction included, "Good evening, ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, dreamers of all ages." Now, the greeting is "Good evening, dreamers of all ages."

[Dilbert San Diego]

But of course!! It’s demeaning, it’s “binary normative” or some such crap, to just assume that there are ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. What about all the non binary and transsexuals and pansexuals and all 50+ gender identities? We have to be “inclusive” and not offend anyone by leaving them out of a general greeting.

sarcasm

[BipolarBob]

Let’s face it Disney has went downhill. I went to to see “Disney on Ice” and it was just an old man in a freezer. Pretty disappointing.

[Tell It Right]

Evidently Disney removed their brains and replaced it with Abby Normal’s.

[dfwgator]

Wouldn’t go there now if you paid me.

[Stravinsky]

Insanity everywhere.

[SERKIT]

Dreamers? Like only Hispanics are welcomed? As a cis-normal, hetero (him/he) white male, I’m offended.....not really, it’s just silly.

[max americana]

havent been there since 1988. Anyone here try to outdate that? They even have Gay Days around 10 times a year so every fudgepacker walk around like morons.

[Tell It Right]

Pinocchio wished hard enough to make himself a boy.

And he's 100% fictional.

[liberalh8ter]

We used to spend a lot of money every year at Disney. We stopped doing that in 2016. I hope Disney starts being a place for kids and vacations again, instead of being a commie tool and haven for homosexuals. If Disney can't, I hope it becomes a wasteland.

[bigbob]

That stirring sound you hear is Walt the Dynamo

[lightman]

“Song of the South” was the REAL Disney’s high water mark.

Thankful to have a bootleg DVD thanks to FR!

[Obadiah]

Officially entered the absurd.

[Republican Wildcat]

“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls” is now offensive after the entire history of the park all the way through 2020.

It’s beyond incredible how stupid these people are.

[Right Wing Vegan]

Now people clear about their gender are excluded.

[The MAGA-Deplorian]

Easy fix. Ladies and Gentlemen boycott Disney. Let the gays and binarys float the craptic kingdom. Wonder what the greeting is in Xisneyland?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The new announcement — “Birthing persons, people who made it possible for birthing persons to give birth, and little people who traveled down the birthing person’s birth canal…”

[simpson96]

Too bad there’s no end to the parade of Stupids that will go there and give there $$$ to this place. Disney won’t feel a thing.

[shanover]

There’s nothing that the left has not infested. That includes planting seeds in FR.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Disney Corp can just replace all that with “suckers”.