Scans-daily is probably not the best place to bring it up, but yes. Our society is so much poorer because it's hard to depict men as friends without undertones being read into it. What prudes used to look for with disdain, people now look for with glee.. and in both cases, looking for what isn't there.
There was something in movies and comics and literature of an earlier time that really is difficult to depict today without great care. That's the big brother-little brother dynamic. It is so necessary in real life and such an important thing to show, but it has been pretty much lost. The idea that a child could ask an adult stranger for help is another thing almost as taboo as cannibalism today.. and again we're poorer for its loss.