Matt Damon

[Beyle]

Aug 2, 2021 13:03:46 GMT -4 Wol said:

And all this time we thought Ben Affleck was the dumb one.

Oh, he still is, but Matt's right there with him.

[granolamom]

Aug 2, 2021 14:49:51 GMT -4 tanyak said:

What does this mean?

“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 used it in another way not pertaining to gay men?

I was a high school teacher when Matt was a teenager, and it was very common for a straight boy to greet another straight boy by punching him in the arm and saying, "Hey 'f-slur'." It eventually changed to, "Hey douche bag," and pretty much every day I'm glad I only ever hear that term in a Kanye song. I'm no longer a teacher so have no idea how the cool kids greet each other these days.

I love that CNN describes Damon's comment as being part of a conversation about "learning to say less;" I guess he hasn't quite graduated from that course yet.

[ElleCee]

Fuck off, Matt Damon.

[Ginger]

The Beastie Boys used to go around in the mid-80s saying they wanted to name their first album (1986) "Don't be a f*****." They apologized for that a lot in the 90s.

Regardless of what Matt may be telling his daughters, it was never mainstream acceptable. It was something abrasive that teenage boys used to say for shock value. And also Sarah Silverman because of course.

It says a lot about Matt Damon, who is 50 years old!, that he said it a few months ago in conversation with his family because he never got out of the habit from when he was a teenager.

[Matilda]

Yeah, I'm younger than Matt but I don't think there's ever been a time when it was acceptable. He might have said it a lot, but it was never acceptable.

I'm quite shocked that he thought he could still say it, and that he actually thought it was somehow a good story to tell. He just needs to stop talking, about everything.

[Beyle]

Aug 2, 2021 15:43:34 GMT -4 Ginger said:

It was something abrasive that teenage boys used to say for shock value.

And also Sarah Silverman because of course.

I'm 45, and while I don't remember if teenage boys used that word at my high school, I definitely remember it was a slur that teen boys used. It was never an acceptable word. Matt is full of crap.

On that second part? 😂 Truth.

I can't stand Silverman.

[Mutagen]

Walking it back. What a bizarre own goal this was. And no, "it was a different time" doesn't fly. I grew up in the freakin Bible Belt and learned that word was unacceptable when I was a teenager. 

[MrsOldManBalls]

Don’t allow him to amend his statement media! No take backs! He said something shitty. He needs to deal.

[Ginger]

Aug 3, 2021 5:52:55 GMT -4 Mutagen said:

Walking it back. What a bizarre own goal this was. And no, "it was a different time" doesn't fly. I grew up in the freakin Bible Belt and learned that word was unacceptable when I was a teenager. 

His statement is completely different than the little anecdote he told to The Times. He told The Times he made a joke, his daughter schooled him about how bad the word is, and he relented and agreed not to use it again. Somehow his statement makes him the hero of the story. That's a pretty brazen turnaround.

[famvir]

On his “different times. Different meaning.”

Yeah, guys called other straight guys f-slur (what a weird way of saying it?), but it was a way of calling them gay. Calling a straight guy “gay” was the worst thing you could call a guy. Calling them a f***t upped that ten times. And Damon knows that. Damon was using the term a month ago when he told a joke.

Just own it, sincerely apologize for being a dick (at 50, shees) you dick, and move on.

The story keeps getting crazier. You daughter wrote a treatise?
You’ve never used in you’d personal life? Only in the movies? What about when you said it constantly as a teenager.

Just step back Damon. I used to like you. You already ruined Good Will Hunting for me. Now you are ruining Saving Private Ryan. We are at the point that Tom Hanks can’t even save a movie you are in.