Funny gay slurs
I wish I could cancel Matt Damon. It's outrageous to joke about hateful gay slurs in 2021.
If I had the unilateral authority to “cancel” people – anointing them pariahs that are banished to the dustbin of popular tradition – my list would contain the usual suspects: Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, Kevin McCarthy and Sarah Huckabee Sanders. As of Sunday, I’d add another mention to that list: Matt Damon.
On a promotional tour hawking his new movie “Stillwater,” Damon sat down with the Sunday Times of London for a wide-ranging interview. The interview first came to my attention in a series of tweets that alleged Damon had admitted referring to gay men using a homophobic slur.
In an age when people manipulate reality by taking comments out of context or making them up out of whole cloth, I was skeptical. Before sharpening the guillotine, I wanted to make sure another public figure was not being canceled for no legitimate reason.
Public relations backpedaling
I tracked down the Sunday Times piece and clicked on it, expecting to discover a reasonable explanation – like a character played by Damon, not Damon the man, had used the slur. After hitting a paywall, and subscribing to a free mont
LGBTQIA+ Slurs and Slang
bog queen
Synonyms: Bathsheba (composition between bathroom and Sheba to produce a name reminiscent of the Queen of Sheba), Ghost (50s, ghost, because they wander the corridors of the bathroom).
Anti-Gay Slurs Not Targeted Just at Homosexual Men
The childhood playground can be a tough place with insults flying faster than dodgeballs, and while some children outgrow the name calling, others never look to. Hurling slurs as adults only exacerbates problems. The use of anti-gay slurs by heterosexual men against other heterosexual men is the focus of a new examine by Nathan Grant Smith, an associate professor of counseling psychology and chair of the Department of Psychological, Health, and Learning Sciences in the University of Houston College of Education.
“Our results suggest that using anti-gay slurs may serve a status-protecting function for heterosexual men: When their masculinity is threatened, they may be more likely to punish other heterosexual men by calling them the f-word,” said Smith, whose findings were published in Current Psychology.
Smith, along with colleague Tyler Brown at McGill University, explored whether heterosexual men who had their status threatened were more likely to employ anti-gay slurs against other heterosexual men. A group of 139 heterosexual male college students were randomly assigned to receive feedback on thei
Tracy Morgan Apologizes for Gay Slurs
June 10, 2011— -- Comedian and "30 Rock" actor Tracy Morgan issued an apology today for his vicious tirade against lgbtq+ people during a standup demonstrate in Nashville.
"I want to ask forgiveness to my fans and the gay & lesbian community for my choice of words at my recent stand-up act in Nashville. I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others," Morgan said in the expression. "While I am an matching opportunity jokester, and my friends know what is in my heart, even in a comedy club this clearly went too far and was not hilarious in any context."
Audience member Kevin Rogers, who is gay, wrote on his Facebook page about Morgan's over-the-top comments at the show. The item, titled "Why I No Longer 'Like' Tracy Morgan, stated, "I figured at some point the gay jokes would fly and I'm successfully prepared for a good ribbing of straight gay humor. I have very thick skin when it comes to humor; I can dish and I can take."
Rogers continued: "What I can't take is when Mr. Morgan took it upon himself to mention about how he feels all this ga