Article: I'll never be on board with those fans of It's a Small Life (er, World)

It's always me and women, women and me, and It's A Small World, that infernal boat ride, that cruise through worst-case heebie- jeebies.

Is it just because I'm a male? I know it can't be age because my genetic-level unease with this Disneyland/Disney World attraction goes back to my teens. To Orlando, to be precise, to the year they opened the park after punching a huge hole in the Florida aquifer in the name of magic, family fun and floating the boat, literally.

Don't get me wrong, the Disney parks are fantastic.

They are also overpriced and cleansed of all emotion except the play kind. Capt. Hook doesn't, after all, flay Peter Pan alive and the Haunted Mansion ghosts are strictly for ...

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