Disney Diversity and Inclusion Manager: We Eliminated All Mentions of ‘Ladies,’ ‘Gentlemen,’ ‘Boys,’ and ‘Girls’ in Theme Parks

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WARE: "Last summer we removed all of the gendered greetings in relationship to our live spiels. So we no longer say, 'Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.' We -- we've trained -- we've provided training for all of our -- our cast members in relationship to that. So now they know it's 'Hello, everyone,' or 'Hello, friends.' We -- we are in the process of changing over those -- those recorded messages. And so many of you are probably familiar, when we brought the fireworks back to the Magic Kingdom, we no longer say, 'Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.' We say, 'Dreamers of all ages.' So I love the fact that it's opened up the creativity, the opportunity for our cast members to look at that.”