Riding crop costumes go bye bye

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by lashbear

Oh, and I also forgot to mention that amongst the Bear CM's must be Kevy Baby & GD (Providing he's still got that goattee)

Yup, goatee intact

[innerSpaceman]

I was at a Panda Express yesterday and it occured to me that, at everyone one of those I've ever been to, for years and years, the staff has been 100% Asian.

This is not a Mom & Pop operation that is hiring Asians as a support to that community. This is a mega-corporation that has decided to maintain a theme of Chinese food served exclusively by those who can pass for Chinese. They are using casting methods in their hiring practices, and they have clearly decided - rightly or wrongly - that their customers want their chow mein dished out by people who fit the chow mein theme.

I will never be hired by Panda Express. Woe is me.


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Creepy as Eliza's Twilight Zone episode is, I wouldn't mind at all if I could choose from one of 73 body types, and if everyone else did the same. (Faces are a different story, but lemme choose a body type and I'd be pretty happy about it).

Furthermore, even though my personal beauty standards go beyond the corporate common denominator standard - - - I have never had a problem finding those C.D. standard beauties to be beautiful. Even when Disneyland was populated by Nazi youth, I rarely found any of those Aryan brothers and sisters to be unattractive.

How can I fault Disney for going with the safest, common demonimator standards of beauty for something as common-denominator-pleasing as Disneyland? With thousands of cast members, there's bound to be an interesting range of looks no matter what beauty standards they apply. And whatever they do with the costume designs and sizes, I believe they - like many employers - will continue to hire the most beautiful, qualified people available.

Like CP, I don't put any stock in looks when interacting with friends (great post, btw, CP). But I won't deny that I react better to good looking strangers (yeah, tell me pretty girls don't have the world in their hands), and that I pretty much agree with society's standards of who's beautiful.


Sue me.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

I will never be hired by Panda Express. Woe is me.

From the Panda Express Website:

Panda Restaurant Group, Inc. is an
Equal Opportunity Employer

You'll see a pic including non-asian employees if you click on the link.

For the record, I've seen plenty of Latinas working at the Panda Express by my work place - which is just down the street from Panda Expresses corporate headquarters.

As for the other stuff, well I'm glad your happy with the status quo.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

How can I fault Disney for going with the safest, common demonimator standards of beauty for something as common-denominator-pleasing as Disneyland? With thousands of cast members, there's bound to be an interesting range of looks no matter what beauty standards they apply. And whatever they do with the costume designs and sizes, I believe they - like many employers - will continue to hire the most beautiful, qualified people available.

Sorry - missed this the first time but:

Disney is not doing this now (at least using scale and ruler to determine beauty) your argument that they were in their rights to do so in 1955, implies you feel the current practice wrong - i.e. not using a "standard" for determining atractiveness/hirability. From what I understand they are hiring a diverse workfroce which ultimately satisfies more than just the common denominator of beauty - do you think this wrong?

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Sorry - missed this the first time but:

Disney is not doing this now (at least using scale and ruler to determine beauty) your argument that they were in their rights to do so in 1955, implies you feel the current practice wrong - i.e. not using a "standard" for determining atractiveness/hirability. From what I understand they are hiring a diverse workfroce which ultimately satisfies more than just the common denominator of beauty - do you think this wrong?

The reality is that, Disney is desperate for good people to work at the Parks. They are sadly understaffed and overworking the staff they do have. I think hiring people to fit some wierd outdated standard of something as subjective as "Beauty" is the least of their worries. Bring on the fat, the ackward, the ugly, the ethnic, the odd looking - just make sure they can work and word effectively.

And, if the current CM's don't meet your oogling standards then go to hooters or rent some porn. There are lots of options of simple base eye candy in the world.

[TigerLily]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

I was at a Panda Express yesterday and it occured to me that, at everyone one of those I've ever been to, for years and years, the staff has been 100% Asian.

the panda express's up here have hispanic and white people working in them. I did go into a mexican restuarant once to apply for a job and they would not even give me an apllication. Apparently because I'm white. Yeah it was annoying, but I wouldn't want to work in a place like that anyway. I refuse to dine there as well.