Will Ferrell says people who are threatened by the trans community do not feel safe or confident in themselves.
  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netOP
    95·
    10 months ago

    I have a buddy who is single and went into a Joe Rogan spiral. Apparently his new biggest fear is talking to a woman who happened to have been born a man.

    When I asked him why? He made up a hypothetical situation of them breaking into his house?

    • Funderpants @lemmy.ca
      50·
      10 months ago

      Insanity, especially considering trans people are more likely to be victims than perpetrators.

    • xkbx@startrek.website
      48·
      10 months ago

      Oh god could you imagine how horrible it would be if a transwoman broke into your house

      They’d just eat all my snacks and download F:NV

    • scops@reddthat.comEnglish
      37·
      10 months ago

      So his concern is having a potential partner that he couldn’t physically outmatch? Can’t think of why a guy like that might be single

    • Alice@beehaw.org
      33·
      10 months ago

      These guys are telling on themselves. “She used to be a man, so she’ll do [horrible thing].”

      So you do [horrible thing] to your partners??

      • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netOP
        35·
        10 months ago

        That was my response! I said, “So in a relationship, that’s what you do?”

        And he got kinda mad and changed the subject.

      • chaos@beehaw.org
        25·
        10 months ago

        Homophobia and transphobia, when you dig into them a bit, are often based in a fear that they’ll be on the other end of toxic masculinity instead of the one they’re used to.

    • millie@beehaw.orgEnglish
      27·
      10 months ago

      It literally only just now clicked that the guy who I was friends with before I transitioned who immediately flipped on me afterward has always been a big Joe Rogan fan. I don’t know why that took so long.

      Anyway, thanks Will Ferrell.

    • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
      14·
      10 months ago

      Wait what? His biggest fear is if someone breaks into his house he might be trans? Or they might be trans and he’s forced to talk to them?

    • lobut@lemmy.ca
      8·
      10 months ago

      Yeah but if he keeps listening to those shows then they imagine it’s happening all the time.

  • Butterbee (She/Her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    60·
    10 months ago

    Good for Will Ferrell! We love a good ally. Do not go to the comments section though, the trolls are out.

  • Powderhorn@beehaw.org
    36·
    10 months ago

    This is actually the first thing that improves my opinion of Will Ferrell.

  • leisesprecher@feddit.org
    35·
    10 months ago

    As a German rapper put it: “you hate feminism, because you’re too weak for self-criticism”.

    Feminism, not about trans, but same vibes, I guess.