Disaster Will Ferrell: ‘If the Trans Community Is a Threat to You, Then It Stems From Not Being Confident or Safe With Yourself’

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Will Ferrell spoke to The Independent as part of his press tour for the Netflix documentary “Will & Harper” and was asked to share his opinion on why transphobia exists. He answered: “I think we fear what we don’t know.”

“Will & Harper” centers on the friendship between Ferrell and Harper Steele. The two met in the 1990s during their careers at “Saturday Night Live.” Steele came out as transgender 30 years into their friendship. The documentary, which was bought by Netflix after its premiere at Sundance earlier this year, finds the two comedians on a road trip across America as they rediscover their friendship following Steele’s transition.

“There is hatred out there,” Ferrell told The Independent. “It’s very real and it’s very unsafe for trans people in certain situations. … But I don’t know why trans people are meant to be threatening to me as a cis male. I don’t know why Harper is threatening to me.”

“It’s so strange to me, because Harper is finally… her,” he added. “She’s finally who she was always meant to be. Whether or not you can ultimately wrap your head around that, why would you care if somebody’s happy? Why is that threatening to you? If the trans community is a threat to you, I think it stems from not being confident or safe with yourself.”

Ferrell told Variety at Sundance ahead of the documentary’s premiere that Steele came out as transgender in an email she sent to a handful of friends. “All of us were extremely supportive and expressed love,” he said. “But that sort of opened the questions like, how can we help you? What do you need us to do?”

Ferrell said he had “zero knowledge” about the trans community before Harper came out to him.

“I had met trans people, but I didn’t have anyone personally in my life,” Ferrell said. “So this was all new territory for me, which is why I think this film is so exciting for us to kind of put out there in the world. It’s a chance all of us in the cis community to be able to ask questions and also just to listen and be there as a friend to discuss this journey.”

“Will & Harper” streams Sept. 27 on Netflix.

 

[neverendingmidi]

Who's going to watch this besides the choir they're already preaching to?

Every school child as part of a "Stop Hate" or similar in-class video.

 

[Smar Mijou]

What really pisses me off about these companies is the vaults of past material they sit on, refusing to release. It leaves you looking for shitty Myspleen or youtube rips from old, crusty VHS copies people made themselves, if those even exist. God I hate Hollywood so much, even without their ball-licking tranny love.

No, goy. You see, you don't understand, we can't possibly let you have physical media anymore because of licensing issues! Because cousin Reuben Sheckelstein owns the rights to the (insert piece of media here), while cousin Moishe Goldberg owns the rights to the music and/or soundtrack. And if they can't squeeze every last sheckel possible from decades-old content, it would be anuddah shoah! Therefore everything that we DO release to the goyim must have it's original soundtracks stripped from it and replaced by nonsensical generic music that lacks any relevance. And, of course, edited for *modern audiences*.

I have been seeing an annoying series of PayPal commercials with this hack in them. I guess his reward for helping to mutilate children and the mentally ill is money and screen time.

Not to mention that he's committed the most egregious sin possible. He's made me actively loathe a Fleetwood Mac song.

As a side note, I've noticed that as he ages, Will Ferrell is suspiciously starting to morph into bizarro world Art Garfunkel. And at the same time, his eyes are continually moving closer together. I fully expect his eyes to be in a single eye socket in the middle of his nose bridge within a decade. Undoubtedly this is a symptom of his degeneracy while he pals around with Mrs. Doubtfire.

 

[Overly Serious]

If you ask for the statistics I will show them to you, but the whole Catholic Church pedophile scandal was MAJORLY astroturfed, and teachers actually commit more child molestations than Catholic priests. (and at a higher rate too accounting for the population difference)

I feel the big scandal with that was that the Catholic Church senior officials attempted to cover for the child molesters rather than turn them in. Though I'm happy to believe that your comment about the numbers is true.

Only thing I managed to get out this thread is that I’m shocked Kiwi Farmers on A&N do not like the Anchorman movie.

Can't speak for everyone but I never found it funny in the first place. I recall laughing half-heartedly at Blades of Glory but I wouldn't rate it as high art and the only thing I recall particularly is the phone call scene with Owen Wilson and his love interest.

Never understood his success.

 

[quaawaa]

The two men attempted a 72-ounce steak eating challenge in Texas and after they failed, told the crowd they needed to support "trans rights". The crowd did nothing, but the troon was traumatized:

‘Will and Harper’: Will Ferrell regrets visiting Texas steakhouse with transgender friend​

Netflix documentary shows pair’s cross-country journey.​

By Sarah Bahari
Staff writer
7:35 AM on Oct 2, 2024 CDT


This image released by Netflix shows Harper Steele, left, and Will Ferrell in a scene from "Will & Harper." (Netflix via AP)(Courtesy of Netflix / AP)

In the new Netflix documentary “Will and Harper,” Will Ferrell and his longtime friend Harper Steele travel across the country following Harper’s transition to woman.

The pair received warm welcomes along the way during stops at a professional basketball game in Indiana, Steele’s childhood home in Iowa and a small-town bar in Oklahoma where an anti-Biden sign with a choice expletive hangs.

Then they arrive in Texas, where things turn sour at the iconic Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo. The restaurant is famous for its 72-ounce steak challenge, in which diners who eat the meat and sides in under an hour get it for free.

Wearing a Sherlock Holmes costume from his 2018 film “Holmes and Watson,” the actor sits across from Steele on a stage. As they eat, they are surrounded by cell phone cameras and stares.

“I’m eating out of nervousness,” says Steele, the former head writer for Saturday Night Live. “As much as I’ve been in a fishbowl in various times in my life, this trumps all of it,” Ferrell replies.

“What begins as a comedic stunt soon begins to feel claustrophobic,” Vanity Fair wrote in its take of the meal. The Houston Chronicle called the encounter “awkward.”

The Big Texan did not respond to a phone call from The Dallas Morning News on Tuesday. The restaurant did post about Ferrell’s March 2023 visit on social media but did not mention Steele.
“Will and Harper” does not show Steele’s toast to the crowd, captured on social media videos: “I’m from Iowa but I will raise a glass to your great state of Texas,” Steele told the crowd. “I wish you guys would do more for trans rights in this state. It went dead, completely dead,” Steele said as the crowd goes silent. “That’s not how we would treat you up in Iowa.”

Ferrell then added, “Cheers to Texas and trans rights, right?”

After the pair leaves the restaurant, they receive a flurry of nasty comments on social media, as seen in the film. One post calls Ferrell a “satanic illuminati pedophile.” Another warns him not to mess with Texas.

“The room started to feel very wrong to me,” Steele says in the movie. “I was feeling a little like my transness was on display, I guess, and suddenly that sort of made me feel not great.” A teary-eyed Ferrell replies, “The saddest part for me is...I just feel...I feel like I let you down in that moment.”

Texas has emerged as a forceful opponent of transgender rights in recent years.

The state has banned gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth and prohibited transgender athletes from competing on college sports teams that do not align with their birth sex. Dozens of school districts across the state, including some in North Texas, have designated which bathrooms transgender students could use and allowed teachers to use students’ biological rather than preferred pronouns.

Most recently, the state stopped allowing transgender Texans to change the sex on their birth certificates or driver’s licenses to reflect their gender identity.

In an interview with The New York Times, Ferrell said he regrets stopping at the restaurant. “I wished I’d walked in and said: “No. This is going to be terrible. Let’s just go,’” he said. “I was feeling that remorse and guilt of even going there.”

“I didn’t really have a grasp on how intense it was going to be and felt responsible for not properly vetting the situation we were putting ourselves in,” Ferrell said. “That felt like it was going to be this benign place where you eat a big steak in the amount of time, and then you walk in and it’s a thousand people seated in this room and I was like, “Oh, why are we here?”

Also, despite what Andrew Steele implied, troons are also shunned in Iowa.

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There’s a scene in the film that takes place at a steakhouse in Amarillo, Texas. That’s the one you’re referring to, where afterward people were saying nasty things on social media. So that scene happens, and it’s an upsetting experience, and after it in the film, Will, you say you felt as if you let Harper down. Can you unpack that for me? Ferrell: I didn’t really have a grasp on how intense it was going to be and felt responsible for not properly vetting the situation we were putting ourselves in. That felt like it was going to be this benign place where you eat a big steak in the amount of time, and then you walk in and it’s a thousand people seated in this room and I was like, “Oh, why are we here?”

Also, just to paint the picture, you were dressed as Sherlock Holmes. Ferrell: That was a bad choice, too. [Laughs.]

Did people in the restaurant think you were making fun of them somehow? Why were the vibes so off? Ferrell: I mean, the vibes were so off because, to put it bluntly, there was a trans woman sitting — Steele: Next to Sherlock Holmes. To your earlier question, I would say that was a moment where the Will Ferrell factor actually worked against me. Because that was a fishbowl. I was sitting there sort of on display. I’ll say something that wasn’t in the doc. We gave a little toast, and I said something about passing a trans bill, and the room did a kind of reversal and a little bit of a boo and a woman shouted out, “We still love you.” I hate the phrase. I could be misinterpreting this woman completely, but this is the feeling I had in the room: The “still” is conditional. You still love me when I finally give up being trans and give my life over to Christ. They still love me even though I’m some kind of sinner or something. I felt that. Ferrell: I wished I’d walked in and said: “No. This is going to be terrible. Let’s just go.” I was feeling that remorse and guilt of even going there.


Ferrell at a stop at a steakhouse in Amarillo, Texas, that the documentary’s stars came to regret. Netflix

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[derpherp2]

Man the excuses rapists make up get weirder and weirder every day.

 

[catsandsoup]

Ah, the classic female activity. Eating challenges.
I also like how each of them wrenches the conversation back to themselves, Ferrell even going to the effort of fancy dress in case anyone forgets he's the movie star.
And the usual tranny moan about how silence is assault, but hypercriticising any expressions of love too.

 

[the printer is outo fink]

It's extremely ignorant and insensitive for a man to dismiss a woman's fears for safety out of hand. As a man, depending on where you grew up, you might not ever find yourself in a situation where you felt unsafe. And even more so receiving unwanted sexual advances from a person in a position of power over you, either physical or status (job,etc). This is all totally different from a woman's experience and is something as a man that would be difficult to fully understand.

Yeah, I'll be honest. I find 'transwomen' literally scary. I'm a small woman, they are men with the vile arrogance to live their fetish in public. A year ago a guy I knew trooned out. I was never fully comfortable as he was always giving me weird compliments but I used to just think he was awkward and not super bright. Once he trooned, I became genuinely worried for my safety around him and started taking precautions like only ever using the single room disabled toilet and never, ever driving straight home if we left the building around the same time.

I wasn't afraid of him when he was an apparently normal man, even with his weird comments. I don't go through life afraid of men even though from about the ages of 14-85 they are all bigger and stronger than me. I spend plenty of time in rooms/building with just men and unless they are actively creepy or threatening, fear never enters my head. But AGPs are creepy and they are being creepy and I'm afraid enough to be extra cautious around them. For my own safety and most especially for any children around them.

 

[(((Obar Lazcano Kamz)))]

Fucking disgusting tranny

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

Deadname: Andrew Steele


Info rapidly being purged from the internet by The Ministry of Truth.

Of course, was married. Many such cases!

Not sure if still married, but...

Was the Head writer on SNL, ran Funny or Die.

https://dailyiowan.com/2016/04/21/life-in-the-comedy-lane-former-snl-writer-and-funny-or-die-director-andrew-steele/

Wonder how much of this is Farrell not wanting to be canceled for dressing up as Janet Reno?

 

[Not A Bunny]

they are men with the vile arrogance to live their fetish in public.

With societal approval to do so.

That's what makes them scary.

Personally, I'm scared of people that clearly have not ever been told "no". Even children. Because those are people who are the first to act irrationally when they don't get what they want. Which behaviors could be any number of things and can be somewhat unpredictable.

MtF's? They're the scariest of all. Because now you're dealing with someone who csn have bouts of roid rage with the permission of not only their conscience, but of society to act like a complete shit, while generally having the physical attributes to keep most people in line.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

Oh man, the Netflix documentary on this faggot and tranny was a sad scene. The deranged tranny was clearly mentally and physically fucked and will Farrell is fragment of what he used to be.

Two broken people traveling the country together. How poetic.

 

[Baraadmirer]

“I’m from Iowa but I will raise a glass to your great state of Texas,” Steele told the crowd. “I wish you guys would do more for trans rights in this state. It went dead, completely dead,” Steele said as the crowd goes silent. “That’s not how we would treat you up in Iowa.”

“The room started to feel very wrong to me,” Steele says in the movie. “I was feeling a little like my transness was on display, I guess, and suddenly that sort of made me feel not great.”

Perhaps Steele could make a connection here?

 

[Not A Bunny]

"I wish you guys would do more for ME."

Christ, fella, I am thoroughly convinced trannies are narcissists, you don't need to feed me any more.

 

[Dick Johnson]

Perhaps Steele could make a connection here?

That's what gets me. "First my friend and I did some real attention whore stuff, then I said something that I knew would make things awkward, and then I got upset that things became awkward."

 

[Smar Mijou]

The two men attempted a 72-ounce steak eating challenge in Texas and after they failed, told the crowd they needed to support "trans rights". The crowd did nothing, but the troon was traumatized:

"I want attention! Everybody look at me! No, wait, STOP PAYING ATTENTION TO MEEEE!!!"
Jesus fucking Christ, these insufferable faggots will never be happy. They want all of the attention but only if it's the right kind of attention. And to think, this vile creature used to be a "man".

 

[Salt Upon Wounds]

As a side note, I've noticed that as he ages, Will Ferrell is suspiciously starting to morph into bizarro world Art Garfunkel. And at the same time, his eyes are continually moving closer together. I fully expect his eyes to be in a single eye socket in the middle of his nose bridge within a decade. Undoubtedly this is a symptom of his degeneracy while he pals around with Mrs. Doubtfire.
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After 18 minutes of flipping through a fucking thesaurus trying to get one of those non-gook AI prompts to bring that colorful image you painted to life, I gave up and came to the headcanon conclusion that Caveman Willy used some of those trannybux to bribe AI programs into changing any unflattering Will Ferrell prompts into photochops of him with bright blue eyes and manly village person handlebars. Sounds like confidence in oneself to me!

And also wow man I'm just so impressed with this AI tech man it's scary how smart it is I'm starting to worry it's going to enslave us all I can tell it's like really smart because when I say "cyclops" it assumes I'm referring to capeshit rather than say, the mythological kind that's been a thing for over 2000 fuckin years, but i guess all that butt fucking the greeks did was all for naught less one of their dicks got The Chop™

"Will Ferrell with eyes very close together. One-eyed cyclops Will Ferrell. Will Ferrell with eye of mythological cyclops. Cycloptic Will Ferrell. Will Ferrell, eyes extremely close together. Will Ferrell, but with one eye in the middle, rather than two." et.al.

 

[el bandito loco]

something that entertains me these days is going on yify whenever some hyper liberal shit comes out because it's a pirate movie site so the comments aren't moderated at all and just reading what people say about it. It just makes me laugh in the first place people arguing on an illegal website about a movie but there's always gems on movies like this.

 

[Bonedome]

Ah, the classic female activity. Eating challenges.
I also like how each of them wrenches the conversation back to themselves, Ferrell even going to the effort of fancy dress in case anyone forgets he's the movie star.
And the usual tranny moan about how silence is assault, but hypercriticising any expressions of love too.

I mean to be fair it exists:

 

[queue-anon]

I feel the big scandal with that was that the Catholic Church senior officials attempted to cover for the child molesters rather than turn them in. Though I'm happy to believe that your comment about the numbers is true.

Teachers' unions pull that shit though. And, even when they're not running interference for pedo teachers, they still make it extremely difficult to fire them outright, so taxpayers get to foot the bill for their salaries while they're on suspension indefinitely.

Maybe he'll understand when he catches his "friend " stealing his daughter's underwear. Hopefully, his wife keeps the creep away from their kids, since this guy is too retarded to do it himself.

He has only sons. Although it's not unheard of for straight men who troon out to become fixated on pretty boys or even fully grown men. Maybe Ferrell will learn the hard way after all.

 

[mrt6732]

I haven't watched anything thing by Will Ferrell in over twenty years. So this is how he stays relevant? Another millionaire who pontificates too much, fade away pro cock lopper fan.