# Pitting Honeybadger

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [March 7, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183 "2018-03-07T15:40:08Z")
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### Author: ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/301 "2023-07-18T18:18:05Z")

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That’s very similar to **Crane** ’s recollection of the 1950s. Maybe _too_ similar for something straight out of left field… coincidence?

> [@In the 1950s, was male on male sex regarded as something horny guys did when they couldn't get dates?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-1950s-was-male-on-male-sex-regarded-as-something-horny-guys-did-when-they-couldnt-get-dates/962414/1):
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> Continuing the discussion from Why was this useage of “queer” offensive?:
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> > **Crane** wrote:  
> > It is my recollection that in the 1950s male/male sex was just regarded as something horney guys did when they couldn’t get dates. It wasn’t condoned but It did not imply that they were exclusive or different.
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> Older dopers, is this for real?
> 
> ETA: What about you know, McCarthyism?

~Max

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