The actor has said that his daughter taught him not to use the homophobic slur only a few months ago, but why is it up to her? MattDamon
Matt Damon spoke openly about his use of the f-word in an interview with The Sunday Times this weekend, explaining that he only stopped using the homophobic slur recently after his daughter taught him it was unacceptable.
Damon has three daughters with his partner Luciana - Isabella, Gia and Stella – the oldest of whom, Isabella, is 15 while Gia is 12 and Stella only nine. He also has a 22-year-old step-daughter from Luciana’s previous marriage named Alexia. What we’re seeing here, is a man so wrapped in privilege and power that he has spent 50 years on this planet without once stepping outside his own experience as a heterosexual man to understand that using someone’s sexual orientation as a joke may perpetuate homophobia.
A teenage girl should not have to educate her father on offensive language, nor how it perpetuates certain forms of oppression.
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