While the “Stillwater” star was talking about “changes in modern masculinity” with The Sunday Times, he explained he retired the “F-slur” because it’s no longer used the same way as when he “was a kid.”

“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!’” Damon recalled.

“She went to her room and wrote a very long, beautiful treatise on how that word is dangerous. I said, ‘I retire the f-slur!’ I understood.”