Just when you thought things couldn’t get any stranger for Disney Parks, now a survey is going to guests which wants to know if members of your family are anything but heteronormative.
When a family comes back from Walt Disney World, sometimes they’ll receive a survey that the company supposedly uses to tailor future experiences at the parks. These are standard for many companies. But all of a sudden, Disney’s surveys for recent guests at Walt Disney World are becoming anything but standard. Frankly, these are invasive and deeply personal.
Rather than wanting to know if guests enjoyed Pirates of the Caribbean or had a fun time at Mama Melrose’s, Disney is now asking families if anyone in their party identifies as part of the LGBTQIA+ community. The survey goes on to ask for the gender of the survey-taker, providing alternative answers.
.@WDWGuestService @WaltDisneyWorld @DisneyParks @Disney @WaltDisneyCo WHY IS THIS THE LAST QUESTION OF A LONG SURVEY? WTF DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH ME COMING TO YOUR HOTELS OR PARKS?? YOU SICK BASTARDS, ENOUGH ALREADY WITH THIS GARBAGE!!!!! IT'S UNNECESSARY!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/5visHXipPS
— DocEpcot 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@DocEpcot) August 15, 2022
The following screenshot was provided by a reader:
According to those who have taken the surveys, depending on how you answer the questions, Disney apparently wants to know if you felt like “you belong” at Disney World. They want to know if you felt “represented.”
I suspect that rather than just getting feedback from families, surely this plays into many families’ thoughts about a trip to a place where they are no longer allowed o use the terms “boy,” “girl,” “man,” and “woman.” You go thinking, “surely it hasn’t changed that much,” you leave feeling a little weirded-out over the new training cast members have to follow, and then here you are with an invasive survey about sexual preferences after going to a children’s amusement park. Tip for Disney: this might have a negative impact on survey-takers wanting to have anything to do with you. Once up on a time (yesterday), these were the sorts of things a stranger might ask and rightly be told, “that’s none of your business.”
But nowadays, Disney clearly things it is their business. Let’s see if they can keep their business or if things are just going to keep sliding down.
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This is not good news, but you do you!
It would be more telling if they were asking which park they felt most at home in.
In December, Epcot was the park with the most couples wearing rainbow mickey ears.
Epcot was also the park with all the child hating couples in general. As well as the mobility scooter people, who would form a three-abreast phalanx, and clearly had no intention of stopping for anyone. And let’s not forget all the people who were visibly drunk before noon, in a Disney World park.
We used to be an Epcot family but we are now a Magic Kingdom family.
This is massively inconvenient because our freaking DVC is at the Beach Club.
Gotta wonder if this is inventory management.