Pay scale is not relevant to whether someone is or is not an entertainer. Most entertainers make less than CMs. While I agree that mysogenistic costumes are out of style, I remain convinced that role-appropriate costumes should remain ... and that means that costumes portraying an historical era do not have to conform to modern sensibilities. Dancing girls at the Golden Horseshoe, for instance, should not wear pants. Get my drift?
It's not a matter of not wanting to see fat people, or people of color, or short people ... it's a matter of people being able to loosely fit the requirements of vaguely belonging to the worlds of Main Street, U.S.A., Adventureland, New Orleans Square, Frontierland, Fantasyland or Tomorrowland. If the fit's not right, there are thousands of other jobs ... both interacting with the public and not ... in many other areas of the resort.
But Disneyland IS an entertainment venture. Casting may of necessity be lax, but I don't think it should be eliminated.
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