Matt Damon, 'months ago'

[Johnny2X2X]

44. Better late than never

So now we're attacking people for being late to the party? There are better ways to spend our time, Matt Damon is not the enemy.

The F word was accepted to use when I was a kid and into the 90s here in MI, and it wasn't even necessarily used as a homophobic slur. I don't recall using it, but I may have, but learned how harmful it was when out with some gay friends and having people call us F***. And Gay was used as a term to describe something that is lame, or not fun, it wasn't until a gay friend explained to another friend that him using the word to describe something he didn't think was "cool" was offensive and it would be the same as if he used his name (Brad) when something sucked. "Dude, that party was awful it was so Brad." or "My professor made me rewrite my term paper, that was so Brad."

Should Matt Damon have known this stuff long ago? Yes. But I'm going to encourage him on trying to do better and improve as we all should try to improve.

And there are parts of the country that have been slower to recognize these words as slurs, Boston is probably one of those places. SO yeah, Damon should have known long ago, but he recognized that and is doing better, that doesn't make him an enemy.