Matt Damon didn’t get the problem wh anti-gay ‘f-slur'

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• MATT DAMON TALKS BEN AFFLECK GAY MORS, SEXUALY -- AND REVEALS THE SECRET BEHD HIS PONYTAIL
• I'M GAY. I APPLD MATT DAMON FOR BEG A BETTER PERSON | OPN
• AFTER UPROAR, MATT DAMON TRI TO CLARIFY COMMENTS ON ANTI-GAY SLUR
• MATT DAMON SUGGTS GAY ACTORS SHOULD STAY THE CLOSET
• MATT DAMON'S DGHTER STOPPED HIM G A GAY SLUR
• MATT DAMON'S E OF A GAY SLUR ANY NTEXT 2021 IS UNACCEPTABLE AND EMBARRASSG
• MATT DAMON APPARENTLY DIDN’T UNRSTAND THE PROBLEM WH THE ANTI-GAY ‘F-SLUR’ UNTIL RECENTLY. HERE’S A LSON.
• IS MATT DAMON GAY? ACTOR SPEAKS OUT ABOUT RUMORS

MATT DAMON TALKS BEN AFFLECK GAY MORS, SEXUALY -- AND REVEALS THE SECRET BEHD HIS PONYTAIL

Matt Damon found himself more hot water this weekend when his take on mors that he and Ben Affleck were gay turned to a discsn of gay actors , about that ponytail he was sportg over the summer: It wasn’t real. “When Ben and I first me on the scene, there were mors that we were gay bee was two guys who wrote a script together, ” he said.

”That revelatn was ma while Damon, who has four kids wh wife Luciana Barroso, said he believ openly gay actors have a more difficult time Hollywood.

“At the time [of the Affleck mors], I remember thkg and sayg, Rupert Everett was openly gay and this guy — more handsome than anybody, a classilly traed actor — ’s tough to make the argument that he didn’t take a h for beg out. ”Though he believ attus are changg, he champns same-sex marriage and he played Liberace’s gay lover HBO’s 2013 film “Behd the Canlabra, ” the actor took some heat for his next quote, which several outlets terpreted as him sayg that gay actors should not e out. Whether you’re straight or gay, people shouldn’t know anythg about your sexualy bee that’s one of the mysteri that you should be able to play.

I'M GAY. I APPLD MATT DAMON FOR BEG A BETTER PERSON | OPN

The gay remarks me soon after he was cricized for “Damonsplag” diversy an episo of HBO’s “Project Greenlight. "That was my recurrg thought as I saw the unfoldg furor over Matt Damon's recent terview wh the Tim which the actor admted he'd only recently stopped g a slur to refer to gay people.

AFTER UPROAR, MATT DAMON TRI TO CLARIFY COMMENTS ON ANTI-GAY SLUR

"The word that my dghter lls the 'f-slur for a homosexual' was monly ed when I was a kid, wh a different applitn, " the actor said, explag that he recently ma a joke g the slur. The tweets were fast and fur: "If Matt Damon's g homophobic slurs at the dner table 2021, you n't tell me he's not g racist slurs too.

As a person who was equently tnted for beg gay as a kid growg up Appalachia, who was himself lled the "f-slur" too many tim to unt, you might be surprised to learn that I dissent. Instead of admirg the is grace of changg one's md and givg up hurtful language, the social jtice mob dragged Damon over the proverbial als, sperate to e this as evince of his Damon is not homophobic.

MATT DAMON SUGGTS GAY ACTORS SHOULD STAY THE CLOSET

I remember sperately tryg to expla to my straight male iends—who had been my iends for years, who had stood by me through thick and th, and had even fend me om homophobia—why the word bothered me so much. Like Matt Damon, they weren't homophobic, eher.

And if Damon had doubled down on the homophobic slur after his dghter cricized him, if he had gotten fensive and relcrant, there would be ample room for that is not what happened. If we on the Left, cludg those of the gay muny, are ser about makg social progrs and broang acceptance and cln for LGBT people, Matt Damon should be ld, not lambasted. "If Matt Damon’s g homophobic slurs at the dner table 2021, you n’t tell me he’s not g racist slurs too.

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MATT DAMON'S DGHTER STOPPED HIM G A GAY SLUR

2015, he told The Guardian that actg, was key that “people shouldn’t know anythg about your sexualy bee that’s one of the mysteri that you should be able to play, ” addg that he imaged “ mt be really hard” for gay actors to be public about their sexualy. In his latt attempt to clarify somethg cendiary he’s said an terview, Matt Damon sisted that he misspoke when he recently told the Sunday Tim he only stopped g an anti-gay slur “months ago, ” and only bee his dghter explaed to him that was offensive.

MATT DAMON'S E OF A GAY SLUR ANY NTEXT 2021 IS UNACCEPTABLE AND EMBARRASSG

Notably, Damon got trouble 2015 for what some viewed as his suggtg that gay actors stay closeted. “Whether you’re straight or gay, people shouldn’t know anythg about your sexualy bee that’s one of the mysteri that you should be able to play.

Damon claimed that the gossip put him and Affleck the posn of havg to ny they were gay, a suatn that he said was “really eply offensive. ” Damon explaed they didn’t want people to falsely assume they were gay bee they knew would hurt their reers.

MATT DAMON APPARENTLY DIDN’T UNRSTAND THE PROBLEM WH THE ANTI-GAY ‘F-SLUR’ UNTIL RECENTLY. HERE’S A LSON.

“But at the time, I remember thkg and sayg, Rupert Everett was openly gay and this guy — more handsome than anybody, a classilly traed actor — ’s tough to make the argument that he didn’t take a h for beg out. He went on “The Ellen DeGener Show” and said his remarks were ma “ the ntext of when Ben (Affleck) and I first started, and people wrote all the articl, when ‘Good Will Huntg’ me out, that we were gay bee was two guys who wrote the script.

Matt Damon Viss Ellen DeGener to Correct His Remarks About Gay Actors: WATCH.

IS MATT DAMON GAY? ACTOR SPEAKS OUT ABOUT RUMORS

“And somebody picked up and said I said gay actors should get back the closet. Instead, he lnched to “the sort of anecdote people make headl about” — the story about how he stopped g the slur for gay people.

He said he apparently ma a joke, g “the ‘f-slur for a homosexual, '” which he explaed “was monly ed when I was a kid, wh a different applitn.

Whether you’re straight or gay, people shouldn’t know anythg about your sexualy bee that’s one of the mysteri that you should be able to play.