Actor Matt Damon says he only recently stopped using the homophobic “f-slur for a homosexual” after his daughter explained it was unacceptable. Damon told The Sunday Times she had written him “a very long, beautiful treatise on how that word is dangerous”, after he used it in a joke. He said the derogatory term for gay men “was commonly used when I was a kid, with a different application”. “She left the table,” the star recalled about the family disagreement. “I said, ‘Come on, that’s a joke! I say it in the movie Stuck on You!’ “She went to her room and wrote a very long, beautiful treatise on how that word is dangerous. I said, ‘I retire the f-slur!’ I understood.”
American comedian, actor and writer Travon Free suggested online that Damon’s realisation came a little too late. “So Matt Damon just figured out ‘months ago’, by way of a ‘treatise’ from a child, that he’s not supposed to say the [F-]word,” posted the writer, who identifies as bi or queer. “Months ago… Months ago.” “I want to know what word Matt Damon has replaced [the word] with,” wondered actor Billy Eichner, apparently unconvinced by Damon’s story.(BBC)…[+]
