Disney Parks has reportedly brought “Ladies and Gentlemen” back into its park greetings — a major cultural reversal after years of censoring any mention of sex in an effort to appease the woke gender-inclusive crowd.
According to a report from entertainment and Disney-focused news site That Park’s Place, it appears that the theme park has quietly begun to restore its previous language for announcements, marking one of the most symbolically significant changes Disney has made in years.
“It’s great to hear that ‘Ladies and Gentlemen’ has recently returned to the Magic Kingdom Express Monorail!” one Disney fan said in a Tuesday X-post, sharing video footage of the new language.
The reversal came after Disney publicly moved toward gender-neutral speech, with a company spokesperson telling Newsweek at the time that the language change was part of Disney’s effort to promote diversity at its parks.
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As Breitbart News reported, the company first announced its new initiative in April 2021, with Disney Parks president Josh D’Amaro saying, “Inclusion is essential to our culture and moves us forward as we continue to realize our rich heritage of engaging storytelling, exceptional service and Disney magic,” adding that this is “just the beginning.”
In July of that year, Disney removed “Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls” from its park greeting in 2021, replacing it with “Good evening, dreamers of all ages.”
In 2020, the company introduced the words “Dreamers of all ages” at the end of “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls” — only to remove the initial part of the message the following year.
Disneyland, meanwhile, was making similar changes to its nighttime entertainment language — not just gender-based park language — but also incorporating it into Disney’s internal training philosophy, The Park Place noted.
As of 2022, Disney diversity and inclusion manager Vivian Ware said that cast members are being trained to avoid greetings such as “ladies and gentlemen” and “boys and girls” and instead use phrases such as “Hello, everyone” or “Hello, friends.”
According to That Park Place, what makes this change in language “so notable” is that “this will not be a minor change in wording – it will reverse a highly deliberate communication choice Disney made around inclusivity, brand identity, and cast member conduct.”
The entertainment outlet said, “The old phrase wasn’t phased out because it became outdated. It was phased out because Disney leadership, at least at the time, believed that gender-neutral language better matched the image the company wanted to project.”
Therefore, the return to “Ladies and Gentlemen” may indicate that Disney “now sees more value in familiarity, tradition, and broad cultural generalization than the ‘progressive inclusivity gesture’ that previously prompted the change,” That Park Place reported.
Alana Mastrangelo is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Facebook and X @ARmastrangeloAnd on Instagram.
