Bette Davis Called Her Grandson A Fag

Maybe she was asking for a British cigarette.

Well, if the shoe fits...

I mean that’s a pretty faggy haircut on that kid.

Bitch hated me but I at least would have called him Little Homosexual Boy.

I don't care if someone born in 1908 used a slur like everyone else did in their day. If you wanna go that far back in history, focus on the figures like Ronald Raegan who caused real and irreparable harm.

B.D. Hyman is a lunatic.

She is certifiably insane. She has nutty Christian videos on YouTube.

Christina Crawford always seems reasonable and thoughtful to me in interviews but Bette's daughter is without a doubt an unreliable source.

Well, Bette wasn't wrong although she could have put it a tad more delicately. Ol' witch.

R7 - after Hyman began her Christian ministry, she also accused La Bette of practicing the dark arts and being demon possessed.

my memory is that in the 1960s the word wasn't as loaded. hard to imagine really.

Streisand uses the word in a line of dialog in Owl and the Pussycat, correct?

32 years ago?

BD is a crazy bitch. I don’t believe a word.

Is this the grandson that recently died?

Bette also said old age ain’t for sissies. What a homophobe!

This video should just be imbedded in DL's interface, its posted like once a month just to remind us Bette Davis called her grandson a faggot down in 1991😂

We had an entire thread on Old Hollywood stars and whether or not they were homophobic. Hear your answer.

Bette Davis can call be a fag all day long.

She sounded like an old BITCH

Just what the dl worships

I worked with Bette Midler once, and she was the same way. You'd think she would support the gay community 100%, but she had a weird, eye-rolling attitude towards them. She'd be like, "Oh God, what are the gays up to now?"

Hyman is insane. Bette Davis was happy to work with and befriend gay men througout her career.

Someone should have savagely slapped Joan Rivers for having that batshit harridan on her show.

[quote]We had an entire thread on Old Hollywood stars and whether or not they were homophobic. Hear your answer.

Oh, dear.

And she smoked, too! She must be canceled.

Cancel her NOW!!!

She has been dead since 1989, but who gives a shit.

Erase all her movies from all digital databases.

Erase her name from Census records!

This makes Joan Crawford the WINNER of the Old Hollywood war for attention unless it comes out that Joan ever said anything that is offensive today, and YES, it counts if what she said was in a script. If anything is found, exhume her body and string it up on the Washington Monument as an example of what happens to you when you're born into the wrong time period and your vocabulary evolves to become offensive to someone.

Do it now. Don't delay. Death to dead celebrities who did not live as saints.

She also, literally, claimed she witnessed her mother turn into some kind of evil creature with claws, and float outside her bedroom window. It's on a tape called BD Hyman's Testimony on YouTube.

"Is this the grandson that recently died?"

WHO

Bette adored Roddy McDowall!

I was born in 1978.

My childhood was the 1980s.

Kids called one another "nerd,' "dweeb," "geek" and "fag" interchangeably. They were terms-of-endearment insults that meant nothing specific. My sister called me "fag" throughout our young lives and she feels sooooo guilty about it. She never was thinking of sexuality at all; it was just an all-purpose insult. I called her a lot of names, and none of those has become a taboo word.

Comedy movies throughout the 80s use the word fag for jokes constantly. So did comedians. The word was used to refer to gay people and the word also was used as a cultural 'haha' vocabulary word. It's not exactly the same as n**** in that that word was always used hatefully and in a way that implied inferiority. Fag was used that way but it also was used in a tangential way that sometimes had nothing to do with sexuality, and sometimes was a hybrid that was more like playfully calling someone a 'fairy,' which people still can do with a chuckle and without backlash.

I watched old 30 Rock episodes during the pandemic. I could not believe it when Liz Lemon called someone a fag. I was really floored. The episode was produced and aired in 2008. Tina Fey wrote and acted out a scene in which her character called someone a fag as a punchline in 2008.

Cultural norms change very quickly.

[quote]B.D. Hyman is a lunatic.

That's true, but I love watching her - she looks and sounds like Bette.

This woman refers to her children, plural, in the clip but the internet has descriptions of only one child for her. What’s up with that?

Also, she seems somewhat fragile and easily torn, so she married into the right last name I guess.

There were two grandsons. One allegedly recently died. I've found no information on them.

[quote] She'd be like, "Oh God, what are the gays up to now?"

Well darling, the bitch wasn’t wrong.

[quote] claimed she witnessed her mother turn into some kind of evil creature with claws, and float outside her bedroom window.

Now THAT I believe

[quote] Bette adored Roddy McDowall!

Well she just assumed he was that way because he was British.

Bette was great friends with actor Jay Robinson (Caligula in the film he Robe), who I thought was gay but he was in 2 long term marriages with women.

*The Robe

Bette famously was happy to look the other way when her costars were gay but if they were attractive to her she allegedly blackmailed them and made them spit roast her to 'toughen them up so they would be commanding leading men onscreen.'

'It all comes down to craft,' she said.

Look, Bette loved the gays. She just didn't want her grandson to become one!

I once read Elizabeth Taylor said to someone about Marilyn Monroe, “Get that dyke away from me.” Should we cancel her?

R38 Look

Looked up the kid (Justin Hyman). Looks like he grew up into a MAGAt. He’d have been way better off as a fag.

R41 Any links?

That's not surprising, R41, considering Mother Hyman

Homophobia is fine. Look the other way. Let’s talk about reparations and equity.

It was hilarious the way that Ryan Murphy portrayed Bette Davis to be a huge gay advocate in Feud. Revisionist history.

R42 Found justin_hyman24 on Twitter. Seems to be him. Bunch of Fox News/Trump likes by him.

Revisionist history, my eye, R45, unless you're talking about Hyman. Bette used to go to gay bars when they were still illegal, and she praised the gay community when the topic was brought up in her touring shows. Plus some of her closest friends were gay.

R23, get that stick out of your ass and calm the fuck down, Mary!

Bette hated Joan because she made a pass at her. Her longtime assistant who just wrote about about her time with Bette confirmed it.

I love a fag who can fix my hair and make a mean cocktail!

Bette had major repressed Dyke vibes.

Link, R49? Davis has gone on record as hating Crawford for stealing Franchot Tone from Bette.

[quote] Kids called one another "nerd,' "dweeb," "geek" and "fag" interchangeably. They were terms-of-endearment insults that meant nothing specific. My sister called me "fag" throughout our young lives and she feels sooooo guilty about it. She never was thinking of sexuality at all; it was just an all-purpose insult. I called her a lot of names, and none of those has become a taboo word.

Sure, Jan.

Everyone thought I was just arrogant, not brilliant, but who's the bitch who knew better than to have horrid children that would fuck up her legacy, eh?

R46 I don't think that's him - he would be in his 50s now.

One of BD’s sons played the lead with Bette in the TV movie, Family Reunion.

BD is batshit insane. Anything she claims, believe the opposite.

KATE, er Katharine the only penis you ever saw was your own!

R29 BD is Bette's only biological child. When Bette and Gary Merrill married, they adopted two children, Michael and Margot.

And BD had two children, both boys

Ya know WHY I named ya B.D., don't ya?

Because I didn't want people callin ya BIG DYKE! HA!

[quote]Bette Davis Called Her Grandson A Fag

... for reasons that are well-known to him.

Which one of you wrote this?

R63 Try the link again

Weren't most slang words for gay in Bette's era a slur? The American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1973. ... and using the word "homosexual" was not conversational somehow, it was a clinical term. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how I remember it. All these terms that are so offensive now were the real words friends and family used. And they were insulting, derogatory, etc.... but that's what people were really thinking. For the most part, there was no hate intended.

All the slang used is now considered offensive ALL OF IT. Nothing like bitching about the way people were then. It's useless.

Most people said "fairy."

R64 The link wasn’t working.

R68 Ok

For some reason the thought crossed my mind of her telling her daughter, “But he is Blanche, he is a faggot. 😂

My grandmother used to routinely refer to all gay men as faggots even when complimentary. “Those faggots sure are crafty.” “I think people should leave those faggots alone.” She stopped about 25 yrs ago. I think was she was becoming aware of its horrid use as a slur and becoming a fan of Anderson Cooper. When in college I explained to her that faggot is the equivalent of nigger to gay people she never uttered that word again not once not even sometimes which she would do after using mostly using the word homosexual or gay.

She told him to get her a fag. She meant a cigarette.

^ Bette was from NEW England, not England

r46 the Justin Hyman you looked up is not Bette's grandson.

Someone needs to find out information about these grandsons, likely in their 50s, although I seem to remember someone suggesting that one died in the last year or so.

The younger grandson's Instagram. He loves Ducati bikes! He's in his mid-40s now. The older grandson died a few years ago.

R76 Just curious how you know for sure that's him? And any info on the deceased brother?

r77 that's him. There's a post about his brother at the link.

R78 Thanks was just curious - I appreciate you taking the time to reply!

This thread is yet another example of people today needing much thicker skin ….

Which one did Bette call a fag??

R81 Justin, according to the video at OP

R78 That looks like the one who was in the TV movie with her.

[quote] Weren't most slang words for gay in Bette's era a slur? The American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1973. ... and using the word "homosexual" was not conversational somehow, it was a clinical term. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how I remember it. All these terms that are so offensive now were the real words friends and family used. And they were insulting, derogatory, etc.... but that's what people were really thinking. For the most part, there was no hate intended.

Dear, do go fuck your stupid self.

[quote] This thread is yet another example of people today needing much thicker skin

Bette’s fans do need to stop being pussies and accept that she had no time for their pansy asses.

Where’s the proof that that’s his Instagram. We need receipts.

r86 it's his Insta

R86 One of the posts was also some certificate showing his name - Justin Hyman. Thanks to R76

Where on that Instagram is proof that that’s him? He follows no Hymans. He’s not Italian. There’s nothing.

Track expert and Bike Enthusiast Justin Hyman

Link to the post with his name.

There are many Justin Hymans. No evidence that this is him.

r90 look at r91. The Instagram is Justin Hyman's.

r92 this is Justin Hyman. He's a Ducati enthusiast and there's a post on his Insta about his older brother dying. It's him, trust us.

That doesn’t mean that that’s Justin Hyman Bette’s grandson. There are many with that name.

He doesn’t use his brother’s name. Again, no evidence.

What is JAH? J for Justin is dead and Justin is posting?

Well this Justin Hyman had a brother named J Ashley Hyman who was born in 1969. It's him.

Jeremy Ashley Hyman was the full name of BD's oldest son.

Then who the fuck is this one?

BD has two sons, Justin and Ashley. Are you telling me that had two sons named Justin?!

BD has two sons, Justin and Ashley. Are you telling me that she has two sons named Justin?!

This says the two sons are Justin and Jeremy. If Justin is dead, this is Jeremy’s account?

Maybe the poster could explain how they came across this Instagram account to begin with.

BD had two sons - Jeremy Ashley Hyman (who went by Ashley) and Justin Hyman. The Insta is Justin's. Here's a face pic.

I see a resemblance but I still don’t see the proof that this is Bette’s son. A strong possibility but still nothing concrete yet. I wonder if Bette’s grandson speaks to his kooky mother.

If he said his brother who died was Jeremy or Ashley, that would make a stronger case. JAH could easily fit but it still isn’t concrete proof. I wonder why he doesn’t use his name in his profile.

Can we find Justin anywhere else on social media?

R106 Get a grip

r106 you're just hopeless then. This is Justin Hyman, BD's son. He posted his brother's year of birth (1969) in his obituary post. BD's son Jeremy Ashley Hyman was born in 1969. Justin looks a lot like his grandmother. I'm sure BD hates that.

If that’s Justin, he follows an account called Trump Toilet Paper.

Okay, with the 1969 thing, it does add up. I’d love to find him on Facebook or Twitter now. Looks like he’s in Virginia. Is that where BD lives?

So Justin wasn’t the one who co-started in a film with Bette then. That’s the one who died.

How did you find this Instagram account?

BD lives in Charlottesville.

R112 Yes, doofus. Do some searching of your own. BD has lived in VA for years running her horrid ministry.

Is this him? The one in Free Union, Virginia? Age checks out.

Who was the husband that got BD into the Born Again stuff? Justin and his brother’s father was from the first marriage, right? To the English guy?

R118 BD has only been married once. Use google.

BD and her husband were a bunch of lazy grifters who didn't like to work. Bette supported them financially for two decades, and she supported them very comfortably. Bette also supported her mother and sister for their whole lives. She should've been a wealthy woman but she had leeching relatives who constantly sucked away her money.

BD wrote her ridiculous book after Bette had the strokes and wasn't expected to live. It was a money grab because she was afraid her mother wouldn't be around to support her anymore. She's a horrid person.

BTW, Bette's strokes were caused by alcohol withdrawal when she was in the hospital recovering from her mastectomy. They could've been easily prevented if the hospital staff had recognized what was going on.

Bette was a drunk?

BD lives in Virginia.

Justin posted about his mother.

Does BD tax exempt through her “ministry”?

BD did the sketch on this.

I’m surprised Bette referred to her daughter as BD.

She always said PT instead of BD. lol

R124 Yes. I also wonder if BD ever ended up getting anything from Bette's estate 'on the side' in any manner, even after being excluded from the will. I know Bette's son Michael was given the means to take care of Bette's special needs child by way of a medical plan Bette had instated years before. Bette's son Michael had publicly stated over the years that he did not agree with BD's book, and that they had not spoken.

BD was named Barbara Davis Sherry. Her son Ashley was in the TV movie with Bette, Family Reunion.

Can any of you use Google?

I always get a cackle out of this.

I’m sure people will remember Jan Hooks long after they’ve forgotten Bette Davis.

Lately every time I see this thread I think this is such a moronic thread. So what if she did? Is it intended to be funny. Is is suppose to make us re-evaluate our opinion of BD? For much of American culture homosexuality was viewed as something very unnatural and a mental illness. It wasn’t until the 80s that those attitudes changed. Faggot has always been a slur but simultaneously all monikers of homosexuals were deem as profane language because all homosexuals were deemed as deviants.

When Bette updated her autobiography she referred to BD as just Hyman.

Well, she couldn't have called her Cunt r134

[quote] When Bette updated her autobiography she referred to BD as just Hyman.

R134 Having concurrent threads on”Hymen” and “Hyman” is confusing.

In her later years, Bette Davis's social circle had a lot of gay men in it.

Surprisingly!