Clearly not. Or perhaps its a cultural thing, but Im uncertain why some one would feel emotional discomfort to the level of cringing based on a post on a message board about someone with no personal connection.
Or is it a tad of the RADA's?
No idea what RADA means.
OK. I don't even fully remember the original post to which I responded at this point, or exactly what I said back, and I'm not going to research it. For whatever reason, it seems to take my laptop 20 minutes to scroll up a page on this site.
Yes, cringing. When someone is making assumptions about the personal goings-on of someone else's family - whether it be Bob Iger or WDW enthusiasts who bring food into the park, it makes me cringe to read it. There is such arrogance and presumptuousness in those statements.
It's worse when there is no "I guess," or "I assume," or "maybe" but this attitude of "of course" - as if there could be no other interpretation, or that the poster is so much more in tune than the rest of us.
In this case, I believe the poster called into question Bob Iger's authenticity/honesty because they read his father's obituary or wikipedia page and deduced that the family could have afforded a DL vacation based on where his father worked, contradicting Bob's statement that they could not.
My point was: That's not enough information to judge someone. And the way in which it was presented rubbed me the wrong way.
There are so many variables at play as others have discussed. If Bob's perception was that his family "couldn't afford it" then I take him at his word, and assume that is his best recollection.
No assumptions by anyone on this board about what his family could afford carry more weight than Bob's own statement.
If he was a kid in the 60's, then chances are his parents lived through the Great Depression. Many people came out of that with a very frugal way of living that they continued their whole lives. They also must have lived through at least the second World War, which potentially had similar effects.
Notice I use phrases like "chances are" and "potentially" and I am not speaking with absolute certainty because I cannot possibly know for certain, and neither can the person who claimed to know the Iger family finances.
On top of that, I sensed a bit of a "know-it-all" attitude which always makes me cringe. People who already don't like me on this board and are probably invisible to me are familiar with that phrase coming from my fingers.
I have no beef with the person, I just tend to speak up in situations like that.
And I had no intention of going on so long about this, but apparently my previous reply did not suffice.
