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The Hottest New Trend Is Famous Matts Using Homophobic Slurs

They're all doing it!

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Jack Mirkinson
Aug 02, 2021
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Dan Patrick Show/Amanpour & Co

It's part of my job as a very serious journalist to spot emerging trends, and I have come across a big one: well-known Matts using homophobic slurs.

The first famous Matt to do this is, of course, Matt Damon, who told this incredible story to a Sunday Times journalist over the weekend:

"The word that my daughter calls the ‘f-…

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