Nah, I accused you off sexism because you were fixated on her being a woman, you lumped her in with other women she has nothing to do with to discuss her prospects of success, and though you admitted you knew nothing about her, you judged her and determined she'd be a failure based on her headshot.
It's notable you didn't include any comments I made about Jill Estorino because they are so innocuous, such brief passing mentions using forbidden words like "she", "woman", or "lady", because that would seem to even pass muster from the Faculty Lounge Language Police, much less an actual moderator here.
The full quote from me that referenced her her head shot is this...
I can't imagine she's going to want to get out there and pretend to be friends, much less feign actual interest in their job duties, with the working class CM's she now leads. Or even their Dockers-clad managers. Just by going off her head shot and pre-scrubbed bio that obviously downplays her lifelong job in Marketing and pretends she knows anything about Operations or Hospitality.
I took one look at her, and
I knew immediately that I knew this woman's type. I know her type because I get grouped up to play Doubles (badly, I'm afraid) with this
exact type of 60something woman every summer at the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club. Those women are always kind and friendly with me, solely because I look the part and my Swedish surname instantly brands me with my parents who were club members when she was a child, but they can be very quick to be dismissive of the staff or those in service industries. If not outright rude to them.
This type of person I know is not a woman who knows anyone who uses their hands and back to get their job done; machinists, housekeepers, burger flippers, ride operators, custodians, parking booth attendants, plumbers, gardeners, the kid who steam cleans out the grease from all the popcorn carts at Midnight, etc., etc. that make up most of the 36,000 CM's at Disneyland.
I saw that head shot and thought....
"Ah, yes. I know her."
Believe me,
I'd love it if Jill Estorino turned out to be a secret Disneyland nerd that we never knew of before 
, and she obsessed over all the little park details Walt and his hand picked leadership team obsessed over circa 1955-1990. But just judging by her decades-long resume', a few carefully scripted public statements to trade magazines, and a head shot of a perfectly lovely looking upper-middle class white person, you'll have to pardon me for welcoming the latest TDA President Du Jour with a healthy dose of skepticism.
It's up to her to prove that wrong at this point.
But if you want to have the benefit of the doubt, don't make creepy comments about women like this.
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What's telling is that post has
not been removed by a moderator here for offensive or inappropriate language.
Because it's not offensive or inapropriate. It's historically accurate and true. Based in facts and real life. And it's not even a real CM, it's a hazy sketch for gosh sakes.
Have you read David Koenig's books, or any books by the great Disneyland founders like Jack Lindquist or Van France?
The job of "Casting" employees to work in the Disneyland Show was a serious one, and one that Walt quickly had codified into the management rule books and employee manuals as his park got its sea legs in 1957-1960.
Pretty, blonde girls under the age of 25 were always chosen to work at Storybook Land Canal Boats. It's a known fact. Tall Nordic types were chosen for the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail and the Matterhorn, even though that's in Switzerland and no where near the actual Nordic countries. Butch, handsome guys were chosen for the Canoes, but only from '71 onwards after they got rid of the actual Indians they used from '56 through '70. Pretty Polynesian and Southeast Asian girls were chosen to operate the Tiki Room. Men at the Submarines, nice young ladies at CircleVision. A pretty girl in a hoop skirt to hold the menu out in front of the Plaza Inn. The hottest It Girls were Tour Guides, and don't even dare ask them out. Male cut-ups only at the Jungle Cruise. Boy Next Door types at Nature's Wonderland. Only men drove the vehicles on Main Street, while young ladies worked the Mr. Lincoln show. Etc., etc.
It was a thing, I promise. And it still existed in 1985, which is the year I referenced for the Storybook Land post.
Things changed quickly in the late 90's and 2000's. To be fair and accurate, many of those changes were overdue or needed. But as someone who was there, 20th Century Disneyland and it's front line CM's were very, very different from today. Thus the reference in that post.
See if you can get a moderator to delete it if you find it offensive and forbidden from conversation here.
But good luck hiding and erasing well documented facts described with appropriate language!
