Why do people hate Disney?

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Anonymous wrote:The ultra Disney lover on this thread is showing their ass just as much as the ultra Disney haters. With responses like “you just did it wrong” or “you hate kids”...who cares if they don’t like it? Move on!

Seems like you can’t. Calling people who go intellectually impoverished? Saying it’s “shocking” to see adults there? Seems like you can’t drag yourself away from hating on it.

I was the one who used the phrase intellectually impoverished. I apologize, I did not mean to be offensive. I don't think I am better than the type of people who go to Disney. At least the type who just go once or twice in their lives. The type of people that go every year, I don't know. It is hard to think of them as having much in the way of imagination. Or cultural/intellectual life. That doesn't make them bad people, or worth any less. It just makes them tedious, and, if I am totally honest, probably a little ignorant and vulgar. But we are all trying to make our way through this life as best we can, so I don't begrudge them their squeaky-clean overpriced commercial joys in the swamp. Here's to Mickey!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The ultra Disney lover on this thread is showing their ass just as much as the ultra Disney haters. With responses like “you just did it wrong” or “you hate kids”...who cares if they don’t like it? Move on!

Seems like you can’t. Calling people who go intellectually impoverished? Saying it’s “shocking” to see adults there? Seems like you can’t drag yourself away from hating on it.

I was the one who used the phrase intellectually impoverished. I apologize, I did not mean to be offensive. I don't think I am better than the type of people who go to Disney. At least the type who just go once or twice in their lives. The type of people that go every year, I don't know. It is hard to think of them as having much in the way of imagination. Or cultural/intellectual life. That doesn't make them bad people, or worth any less. It just makes them tedious, and, if I am totally honest, probably a little ignorant and vulgar. But we are all trying to make our way through this life as best we can, so I don't begrudge them their squeaky-clean overpriced commercial joys in the swamp. Here's to Mickey!

You have an odd way of apologizing or conveying that you don’t think you’re better than people who call—in your supposed apology—lacking in imagination, tedious, ignorant, and vulgar.

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Anonymous wrote:I know there is some people certainly feel superior over not liking Disney, but I don't understand why if I say "I prefer hiking and National Parks over Disney" or "I'd rather go to a museum" why do some people have such a hard time believing that's true? It's just how I feel. I'm not saying that because I think national parks are sooo much more "high brow" than Disney...that's just more my style. It has nothing to do with superiority.

I guess my question would be, why can’t you do both? Disney for kids, national park for you. How many times a year do you travel? We like to mix it up. A couple ski trips, couple beach trips, trip to Europe (though not anymore), domestic trips, etc. We travel 5x a year so a week in disney is no big loss to me. It’s fun.

Do you really think most people travel 5x a year? You sound insufferable and out of touch.

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I don’t hate it. We took kids twice when they were much younger. I think it’s a fun place to go once or twice. I have a hard time understanding people who go every single year and spend their entire lives planning Disney trips.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is there such a hostile pro-Disney commenter here? Very strange. Lady, get off the forum and go do you. Disney doesn't need you to defend it. They're doing just fine without your rabid barking on DCUM.

That's the way DCUM works. See a recent thread of an innocent poster looking for a nice hotel in Ocean City, MD. Thread turned into OC sucks, and the only proper beach trip is staying at a Four Seasons or St. Regis resort in French Polynesia.

That's hilarious. Because it's so much easier to take a weekend trip to French Polynesia. Gotta love DCUM.

It’s the same sort of people who say they’d rather go to Africa or India for that cuisine than eat it at an African or Indian restaurant at Disney.

I mean, under that logic, why should anyone eat anything but American food here?

It’s a bit offensive to have an “African” restaurant. It’s a damn continent, is the food in Morocco identical to that of Zimbabwe?

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Anonymous wrote:The ultra Disney lover on this thread is showing their ass just as much as the ultra Disney haters. With responses like “you just did it wrong” or “you hate kids”...who cares if they don’t like it? Move on!

Seems like you can’t. Calling people who go intellectually impoverished? Saying it’s “shocking” to see adults there? Seems like you can’t drag yourself away from hating on it.

I was the one who used the phrase intellectually impoverished. I apologize, I did not mean to be offensive. I don't think I am better than the type of people who go to Disney. At least the type who just go once or twice in their lives. The type of people that go every year, I don't know. It is hard to think of them as having much in the way of imagination. Or cultural/intellectual life. That doesn't make them bad people, or worth any less. It just makes them tedious, and, if I am totally honest, probably a little ignorant and vulgar. But we are all trying to make our way through this life as best we can, so I don't begrudge them their squeaky-clean overpriced commercial joys in the swamp. Here's to Mickey!

You have an odd way of apologizing or conveying that you don’t think you’re better than people who call—in your supposed apology—lacking in imagination, tedious, ignorant, and vulgar.

Lol was just about to say this same thing. Either PP enjoys conveying this air of smug superiority or he/she really is clueless to his/her own tedious, vulgar ignorance.

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Anonymous wrote:Some people don’t like waiting in lines or all the planning needed to not wait in lines all the time.

Some don’t understand why adults would want to spend money on WDW when they could take that same money and go to a national park, or travel internationally.

Some people think Disney is not a good corporation and do not want to give it money.

Some people haven’t been and have their own ideas.

Some people don’t enjoy the entertainment Disney provides.

This is me. As a kid I loved amusement parks, including Disney. In hindsight, my parents must have found it boring and tiring. As an adult, the wait is no longer worth it. I would go to WDW once, just so my kids can also have that fun.

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Anonymous wrote:So overpriced! I can book an incredible trip to Europe or the Caribbean for the same price.

And I find going to the Caribbean—most of the islands anyway—immoral. You’re supporting labor exploitation.

Meanwhile, I love going to Disney, Europe, and Asia.

Ummm...no.

Having lived in a Caribbean nation, they have lower wages, but you're not exploiting workers there by going there. That doesn't make sense.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s tacky. Noisy. The epitome of commercialism and marketing to young children. Manufactured “fun.” Appeals to lowest common denominator of vacationers.

Yes this. Similar people watching as a trip to Walmart.

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Anonymous wrote:So overpriced! I can book an incredible trip to Europe or the Caribbean for the same price.

And I find going to the Caribbean—most of the islands anyway—immoral. You’re supporting labor exploitation.

Meanwhile, I love going to Disney, Europe, and Asia.

lol and...thoughts on Disney? It's a multibillion dollar corporation that pays its workers (comparatively) pennies. I used to live in Orlando and the paltry wages of theme park employees is a HUGE issue in town. There are a lot of homeless cast members. Or CMs working commuting three hours every day to Disney bc they can't afford to live closer.

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Disney is interesting, the folks that yammer on about it make me want to fuse my ears shut.

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Anonymous wrote:I can understand why people with kids go to Disney, but I will never in a million years understand childless adults who go, or worse yet, GET MARRIED at Disney.

You do realize that Disney has plenty of restaurants and rides that aren’t meant for kids at all, right?

My 4 year old is too short for a big percentage of rides at Disney.

Chuck E Cheese has pizza that can be eaten by adults too. That doesn’t mean that they should.

Honestly, adults without kids going to Disney is the most pathetic thing I can think of.

I know several couples who have gotten married at Disney. They don’t have children but live for Disney. They go to the wine and food festival every year and Disney cruises every few years. They even went on a Disney cruise late March 2020 after schools were closed for the pandemic. All the ports were closed so they stayed on the ship 2 weeks drinking and eating and taking pics with cast members. They eat at the Disney Downtown restaurants on the regular and do not vacation anywhere else. All these couples are morbidly obese and one of their wedding pictures was 12 of them (6 couples) in front of the castle throwing Mickey hats in the air. They needed a panoramic photo to get them all in.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean I didn’t want to go to Disney before I had kids. Disney is a happy place for kids. My kids love it. We also go to national parks, beaches, lakes, mountains, deserts and cities. Of course I would rather go to Japan or Hawaii but Orlando is an easy flight. Not like Disney is our only vacation but one of many.

I am talking about non covid times.

Disney is down with Chinese slavery.
Shame on Disney!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The ultra Disney lover on this thread is showing their ass just as much as the ultra Disney haters. With responses like “you just did it wrong” or “you hate kids”...who cares if they don’t like it? Move on!

Seems like you can’t. Calling people who go intellectually impoverished? Saying it’s “shocking” to see adults there? Seems like you can’t drag yourself away from hating on it.

I was the one who used the phrase intellectually impoverished. I apologize, I did not mean to be offensive. I don't think I am better than the type of people who go to Disney. At least the type who just go once or twice in their lives. The type of people that go every year, I don't know. It is hard to think of them as having much in the way of imagination. Or cultural/intellectual life. That doesn't make them bad people, or worth any less. It just makes them tedious, and, if I am totally honest, probably a little ignorant and vulgar. But we are all trying to make our way through this life as best we can, so I don't begrudge them their squeaky-clean overpriced commercial joys in the swamp. Here's to Mickey!

We go almost every year. Between my spouse and me, we have 4 Ivy League degrees and one “little Ivy.” We’ve been to move of the US states and about half of the national parks. One of us is bilingual and the other is trilingual and we’ve each worked abroad. I used to go to museums and the theater frequently, although I admit that hasn’t happened much lately. We don’t care for skiing and aren’t huge beach fans so we typically do a long weekend at
disney in the winter when others we know are off skiing. It’s nice to get out of the cold. We do like rides a lot (and also do day trips to six flags, Hershey, and universal). I also enjoy the shows at disney — they are good fun entertainment. The food is not great, if you’re used to the food around DC but one can find tolerable choices. I travel a lot for work and honestly think the food stinks most places, and Disney is better than average on that metric.
I appreciate that everyone liked different things and certainly not everyone likes roller coasters. I don’t understand why one would conclude, though, that it is a mark of intellectual incuriosity any more than the folks who go to aspen every winter to ski. That seems to me the height of boredom!

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Disney appeals to the simple minded folks