“retire[d] the f-slur” after getting told off by his daughter.In a interview published by The Sunday Times, Damon related an incident months ago when he made a joke using what his daughter described as “the f-slur for a homosexual”.
His daughter criticised him for using it and wrote “a very long, beautiful treatise on how that word is dangerous”. Damon added, “I said, ‘I retire the f-slur!’ I understood.”Now, in a statement released to Deadline, Damon has clarified that he has never used the slur in his “personal life”. “This conversation with my daughter was not a personal awakening,” he explained.