Matt Damon is copping mass backlash for revealing in an interview that fa**ot (a homophobic slur) was part of his vocabulary up until “months ago” when his daughter pointed out that it’s a fucked-up thing to say.
Speaking to The Sunday Times, he recounted dropping the word in conversation while “at the table” with his family.
“The word that my daughter calls the ‘f-slur for a homosexual’ was commonly used when I was a kid, with a different application,” he told The 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!’,” Matt Damon added, referencing the 2003 film in which he plays a conjoined twin with Greg Kinnear.
“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.”
After the interview did the rounds online, folks on Twitter began calling him out for thinking it was okay to use it as of 2021. Come on, man..
Reading that Matt Damon story pic.twitter.com/GI6mKWcSxm
— Casey Stegman (@cstegman) August 1, 2021
Matt Damon bravely coming forward with information no one asked for.
— Eddie Dougrou (@didgeridougrou) August 1, 2021
Who would’ve thought that DaBaby and Matt Damon had so much in common?
— aaron (@aaronaubreynyc) August 1, 2021
I have acquired the film rights to Matt Damon’s daughter explaining why the F slur is homophobic.
— Amy (@lolennui) August 1, 2021
matt damon should go with the incredibly funny alec baldwin tactic pic.twitter.com/tKdqgTtedk
— Bec Shaw (@Brocklesnitch) August 1, 2021
Matt Damon actor has three daughters Isabella, 15, Gia, 12, and Stella, 10, with his wife of 16 years, Luciana Barroso.
It comes shortly after rapper DaBaby was called out for going on a gross homophobic rant at a recent performance.
According to a video posted by TMZ, DaBaby encouraged the audience to hold up their phones, but only if they “didn’t show up today with HIV/AIDS or any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that will make you die in two to three weeks,” among other derogatory remarks about HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ+ people.
Following the backlash, DaBaby tried to defend the comments he made at the show via Instagram Live, but he dug himself an even deeper hole by making further offensive statements.
He denied that the rant was homophobic, but rather a “call to action.” He also said that his gay fans “don’t got fucking AIDS” because they aren’t “nasty” or “junkies.”
Several stars have slammed his actions, including Dua Lipa and Madonna, and he has been subsequently dropped from Lollapalooza, Apple Music and Boohoo (to name a few).
Wonder if Matt Damon will cop similar repercussions…
