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A White Guy's Measured Explanation of Why What Matt Damon Said Was Wrong
Yesterday, Matt Damon made this statement to The Guardian:
&#;I think you&#;re a better actor the less people know about you period. And sexuality is a huge part of that. Whether you&#;re direct or gay, people shouldn&#;t know anything about your sexuality because that&#;s one of the mysteries that you should be qualified to play.&#;
This is how some blogs characterized that statement.
That felt appreciate an unfair characterization to me, and yesterday, I wrote a post saying as much. The headline was this.
The comments were all over the place, ranging from outrage to pity to complaints that all of this was being blown way out of proportion to suggestions that Matt Damon is a lesser person for his comment.
Here&#;s the comment, however, that I want to emphasize on:
This comment, initially, felt baffling to me, because I re-read that statement several times and nowhere does it utter explicitly that gay actors should stay in the closet. He didn&#;t state what we thought he said!
However, I am also a straight, alabaster male, and like Matt Damon, even when our intentions are earnest, we do not realize th
"Leave Matt Damon alone!"
That was my recurring thought as I saw the unfolding furor over Matt Damon's recent interview with the Times in which the actor admitted he'd only recently stopped using a slur to refer to gay people.
"The word that my daughter calls the 'f-slur for a homosexual' was commonly used when I was a kid, with a different application," the actor said, explaining that he recently made a joke using the slur. His daughter, incensed, wrote a lengthy "treatise" (Matt's word) on why the word is repulsive. After reading it, Damon told his daughter he would commit to "retire the f-slur!"
Twitter immediately exploded in condemnation. The tweetswere fast and furious: "If Matt Damon's using homophobic slurs at the dinner table in , you can't tell me he's not using racist slurs too." "holy god Matt Damon is dumb." "Matt Damon's daughter has inspired me to stop using the phrase Masshole Douche Canoe. Never too after time for personal growth." "SUPER-annoyed with all of the folks bemoaning the "twitter mob" criticizing Matt Damon. There has been no real call for a boycott or any notable attempt to "cancel" him. It's okay to contact a rich asshole an asshole. He'll be fine."
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[quote]The whole thing smacks of his getting out ahead of something he was afraid was going to be made public.
This doesn't make any sense. He is commenting today on a quote he made in an interview published yesterday. If he was trying to get ahead of it he's a bit late.
This was the actual quote: “The pos that my daughter calls the ‘f-slur for a homosexual’ was commonly used when I was a kid, with a alternative application,” he told the newspaper. “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’!’ She went to her room and wrote a very elongated, beautiful treatise on how that word is hazardous. I said, ‘I retire the f-slur!’ I understood.”
Nowhere in this quote does Damon say he was using the slur all the time up until a few months ago. He said he *made a joke* a not many months ago, but did not share the joke in the interview. Also nowhere in this story is he claiming that he uses this pos in his personal animation and he is *just* now "retiring" it from his daily lexicon. He does, however, explain that this word was
Matt Damon clarifies sexuality stance
Matt Damon's comments on sexuality landed him in warm water.
In a new interview with the Guardian, The Martian star seemed to imply that gay actors were better off staying in the closet.
Discussing his role starring as Liberace's lover in HBO's Behind the Candelabra, Damon was asked point-blank if it's harder for actors to be openly gay in Hollywood. "I'm sure," he replied. "When Ben and I first came on the scene there were rumors that we were gay because it was two guys who wrote a script together."
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The gossip, he added "put us in a weird position of having to retort, you know what I mean? Which was then really deeply offensive. I don't want to, enjoy (imply) it's some sort of disease – then it's like I'm throwing my friends under the bus. But at the time, I remember thinking and saying, Rupert Everett was openly gay and this guy – more handsome than anybody, a classically trained actor – it's tough to construct the argument that he didn't take a punch for being out."
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