"Recall if you will the movies of 1930's ,etc and what did you see. things like Laurel and Hardy sharing a bed...and many others . No one thought anything of it. Now we are super sensitive to and in my view oversexed literally and figuratively."
Well, I was not born in the time period when Laurel and Hardy were popular in movies. I do remember television of the 1950's when Lucy and Ricky had separate beds as did Ozzie and Harriet and even into the 1960's when Rob and Laura had separate beds.
I remember some episodes of Gunsmoke when Marshal Dillon and Chester had to bunk down in the same hotel bed. No way I would call Marshal Dillon gay - but who knew about Rock Hudson at the time?
As for the New Yorker magazine being "elitist", don't they have a trademark icon of a man in a top hat and a monocle (or am I thinking of Mr. Peanut)?
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