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Matt Damon casually used homophobic slur until daughter told him to stop
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Matt Damon still casually used homophobic slur until his daughter finally told him to stop

By Megan Armstrong  |  Last updated Aug 2, 2021 4:13 PM ET

Matt Damon has ignorantly been using the "f-slur for a homosexual" up until very recently.

In this new profile for The Sunday Times, the 50-year-old actor and filmmaker freely (and inexplicably) admitted he casually threw out the "f-slur" while eating dinner with his family. Damon and his wife, Luciana Barroso, share three daughters—15-year-old Isabella, 12-year-old Gia and 10-year-old Stella—and one of them had to educate a grown man on why referring to LGBTQ+ people in derogatory terms is problematic.

"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 Oscar winner told The Sunday Times. "I made a joke, months ago, and got a treatise from my daughter. She left the table."

"I said, ‘Come on, that’s a joke! I say it in the movie Stuck on You!" Damon added (h/t Entertainment Weekly). "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."

Obviously, this didn't go over well:

Damon currently stars in Stillwater as Oklahoman oil-rig roughneck Bill Baker. Baker travels to France to help exonerate his estranged and wrongly convicted daughter (Abigail Breslin). The Tom McCarthy-directed film received backlash from Amanda Knox surrounding its U.S. theatrical release last Friday (July 30):

Damon's previously held (and again, very recent) stance on homophobic slurs is almost as outdated as the story in Ridley Scott's The Last Duel, the historical drama Damon co-wrote with Ben Affleck and Nicole Holofcener that's set in 14th century France.

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Megan Armstrong (@megankarmstrong) is a writer whose work has appeared in places such as Billboard, GQ, Esquire, Bleacher Report, Uproxx, and others. Megan has also produced various podcasts and hosted a daily radio show at Mizzou. She grew up obsessed with sports — impressing adults by memorizing NFL statistics as a kindergartner — and grew into an obsession with music

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