recent interview with the Times in which the actor admitted he'd only recently stopped using a slur to refer to gay people."The word that my daughter calls the 'f-slur for a homosexual' was commonly used when I was a kid, with a different application," the actor said, explaining that he recently made a joke using the slur.
His daughter, incensed, wrote a lengthy "treatise" (Matt's word) on why the word is offensive. After reading it, Damon told his daughter he would commit to "retire the f-slur!"Twitter immediately exploded in condemnation.
The tweets were fast and furious: "If Matt Damon's using homophobic slurs at the dinner table in 2021, you can't tell me he's not using racist slurs too." "holy god Matt Damon is dumb." "Matt Damon's.