To ask what you think about grown women who go to Disneyland without dc with Disney ears and wearing Disney dresses?

[Witchofzog]

Before anyone flames me this is meant to be light hearted. Obviously a holiday is about doing what you want to do and I strongly believe each to their own. I also don't get holidays where you fling yourself out of trees or go to back to basic retreats where you pay a fortune to effectively starve yourself.

But I have 2 friends on Facebook - one an ex colleague and the other a distant family member who have been to Disneyland Florida with their partners (who look a bit bored in the photos) over the last 2 months. Both have dressed in cutesie Disney dresses, Disney shoes, bags and ears despite being in their 30's and their photos are mainly all with various characters. I just don't get it. I imagine with children or for a few days it would be totally magical but I think 2 weeks of meeting characters and eating Disney shaped food would get a bit boring after a while. But I am prepared to be educated. These women look like they are literally having the time of their lives so there must be something I am missing.

Would you go on your own without dc's for 2 weeks?

Maisy for someone who claims to be unbothered, you spend an awful lot of your time making very specific, very nasty judgements. It must take up an awful lot of energy, judging and sneering at people you don’t even know.

Now THAT is odd.

People are just responding to the original OP's question, am I right? Trying to get to the basics here before we land in the land of the perpetually offended.

YeTalkShiteHen
Not an awful lot of time. People's interests are neither here nor there.
I've already said countless times I have zero issue with people liking Disney and actually enjoyed some of the films. By all accounts if you like rides etc then it's great. My friends go every year. They love it. Nothing about them discussing/sharing holiday stuff annoys me because it's like talking to adults who are looking forward to their holiday.

I just find some of the accompanying behaviour of some adults a bit bizarre. Note, not saying they are weird or creepy or pathetic. The squealy, I met my hero etc behaviour is a bit bizarre to me.

If you can’t understand different people liking different things you’re in trouble to be honest. How hard is it

Seriously. I have autism and if I can understand that different people like different things without hurting anyone, why can't neurotypicals understand this?

Everybody’s entitled to an opinion. They’re not entitled to judge others with it.

That's the issue I have with the OP and some other posters on this thread. Express an opinion? Fine. Judge other people for their tastes and dress it up as 'opinion'? Not fine.

LadyRochfordsHoickedGusset
Yes.
OP asked question/discussion topic
People shared ideas.
Mix of replies on all sides. Some opinions and some quite personal and unkind comments suggesting anyone who goes must lack intelligence.
Ended up at a place where any comment that isn't 'love Disney/ I would never think anything negative of anyone else's behaviour ever' is obviously a sign of sneering, being a terrible person etc.

I'm sure Maisy is a teacher. It does seem odd as when I'm teaching, I don't have time to use the loo, let alone constantly read and comment on Mumsnet. Bizarre.

It's 10 to 8 in the morning.

I have no issue with someone saying “not my cup of tea”.

I do find it rather ironic that the people who are decrying Disney as “childish” are the ones throwing insults such as “creepy” and “childish” and “pathetic”. Seems their brand of debate hasn’t really moved on from the playground.

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Absolutely Maisy.

No I wouldn't but there was lots of childless adults when we went to Florida (with our kids) you can even get married there, they sell Disney wedding dresses! It's no different to grown adults dressing as storm troopers or anime characters or whatever at comicon, not for me but to eaches own.

We didn't bother with queuing for photos much as they were very long queues, we wanted to go on rides!

Come on now Maisy, you're toning your response down. We've gone from "infantilised childish hysterical screaming" and "it is weird behaviour in an adult" to you gently just finding it a bit bizarre. Luckily your posts are still there so can people can judge your tone and comments for themselves.

CarolDanvers
The reason I think it is bizarre and weird behaviour for grown adults is because it's excessive, hysterical and infanfalised.

I have zero issue or opinion on adults who just happen to like Disney of go on holiday.
I do think the squealy, let's be princesses for the day, I met my idol (someone dressed as a fictional character) is odd.

I think there is a world of difference between adults going to Disney, through to dressing up and taking photos of characters and ending up with squealing hysterical adults

So im definitely at the start, we went in our early twenties and I obviously take pictures of characters and scenes but ive managed to tamp down any 'hysteria'

I think thats the problem with these types of threads...OP is taking about the first half of the Disney spectrum and others are referring to the more extreme end

We love Disney as a family (though universal in Florida has probably overtaken it) but i cant see dh and i going again without the children

Oh crossed with maisy

Thats my point really...

Yep. All about the rides Annie, for me anyway.

Also, r.e. The OP it's not just women, any grown up, males included, so into the childish aspect would make me wonder about them. That's what I think. Am I allowed to think?

Michael Jackson.

Not liking it is fine. Not understanding why someone one would something is also fine. It's the condescending, sneering tone of "I don't understand why an adult would like something" that can fuck right off.

I live alone, have a job, am studying for a degree and all that other boring grown up stuff (though I'm sure there are those who will look down on a 33 year old at university) but apparently because I've been to Disney and enjoyed it AND love gaming then that means I'm not a proper adult. 🙄 If I have a day off and I want to spend it vegetating on the sofa with a game, so what?

Not liking it is fine. Not understanding why someone one would something is also fine. It's the condescending, sneering tone of "I don't understand why an adult would like something" that can fuck right off

And there it is in a nutshell.

MaisiePops, I don't necessarily think it's jealousy or envy of not having or being able to do the same things but of other people feeling free to act in ways that you would feel curtailed (because you'd be judged (by people like you)).

There is something lacking and inadequate about a person, any person, who feels the need to make a value judgement of another person for something harmless that they wear/do/say. If you get to the point where you're stating that a person is x, y, z for wearing/doing/saying something then I'm talking about you.

Just because there are others who do it as well doesn't operate like a talisman to ward off posters who'll pull you up on it.

I wonder if you think that anybody who doesn't agree with you/your side is a bit thick? You said that we are where we are on this thread where anybody who doesn't 'love Disney' is being sneery. Well, I don't love Disney. I'm not sneery about it. You (and others) are being sneery. I've seen you on other threads too and that does seem to be your metier.

It worries me that someone like this is in charge of educating young minds.

She's not the only one though, Prof, mothers (particularly) have a huge involvement in developing their children and if some of the mothers on here are anything to go by, they'll be raising the next generation of judgemental, gossipy twats.

I don't see this much in real life though so perhaps Mumsnet is just a bit of a platform for this sort of thing.

unwitting platform, that would be. I can't imagine anybody bothering to set up a chatboard for that kind of ilk.

I’m with Maisypops.

Adult women behaving like six year olds seems a bit odd to me. Squealing in excitement about wearing a frilly dress and meeting some teenager in a costume? Sure, you can like whatever you want but you’re still an adult.

Did I read there are now Disney cruises? Hell on earth to me!

Each to their own. No harm in it. I wouldn't choose to join them and they are almost not very close friend material (for me), but that doesn't mean we couldn't have a laugh together occasionally.

I would actually go to Universal/Disney etc without children, but only for a day - not a whole holiday - and not with the costumes, queuing to meet characters thing.

I dislike Disney and wouldn't go there. But dressing up in general isn't a problem as far as I'm concerned.