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Testosterone Brigade

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The Spear Counterpart to the Estrogen Brigade, the Testosterone Brigade is an enclave of male fans within a traditionally female-dominated (or at least gender-neutral) fandom. While they may dislike the frequency of the Female Gaze or the presence of Mr. Fanservice characters, it's very likely that they were pulled into the series in the first place because of one or more female characters they find pleasing to the eye. Depending on the series, they may view it as a Guilty Pleasure due to the number of female fans. Occasionally, as with an Estrogen Brigade, both sides will butt heads over largely superficial issues, with buckets of opposite-sex awkwardness, which can get defensive. It should also be noted that not all male fans within such a fandom are necessarily of the Testosterone Brigade.
A Testosterone Brigade is easily attracted by hints of Les Yay or by fanservice from main characters. See also Multiple Demographic Appeal, Guilty Pleasure, Best Known for the Fanservice. When the creators of a work acknowledge this demographic and make a "girly" show that's actually aimed at men, then you've got a Jiggle Show or the trope What Do You Mean, It's Not for Little Girls?.
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A lot of guys admitted to watching Aquamarine as a Guilty Pleasure just to crush on Sara Paxton playing a sexy mermaid - with an Adorkable personality too.
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Pretty Little Liars, being aimed at girls, has an amazingly high amount of good-looking males in the cast. It also has an amazingly high amount of good-looking females in the cast (Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson, Lucy Hale, Shay Mitchell, Janel Parrish, Sasha Pieterse, Tammin Sursok...), a trait shared with most of its fellow Warner/Alloy series like Gossip Girl (which featured Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, and a young Taylor Momsen) and The Lying Game (Alexandra Chando, Alice Greczyn, Charisma Carpenter, Kirsten Prout in season 1).
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Lita is an interesting case. She became popular with young girls because of her One of Us image (she was a Lad Ette). She also became popular with boys because of that as well. In addition to that, boys also were turned on by the fact that she had her thong on display and removed her top in several matches.
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The School for Good and Evil (2022): A lot of male fans are only interested in this female-aimed film because the actresses are good looking, particularly Charlize Theron as Lady Lesso.
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Desperate Housewives. Its description on this wiki even describes it as "not a porn mag, but a US TV drama." At the height of its popularity, ABC even ran an ad with a guy admitting he watched it… and (unconvincingly) claiming that it was for the story. Riiight.
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Paige represents a similar case of trying to cultivate a One of Us feel. Without tanning, she adopted a Raven Hair, Ivory Skin appearance, overlapping with Unkempt Beauty - and had fans in the palm of her hand. A documentary about her reveals that she was this before she was in WWE too. Her mother said all she had to do was slap her daughter's picture on something and it would sell.
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Most male fans of Maid-Sama! like it because of Misaki Ayuzawa, the female lead, and her dynamics with Takumi Usui, the male lead.
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Sex and the City. It's a show about four sexy older women who like to have sex and talk about it — and this being HBO, they don't cut away from the nudity. (Out of the four main cast, Sarah Jessica Parker was the only one who had a no-nudity clause and didn't have to bare her naughty bits for the show — and perhaps not coincidentally, she's also the one who is most frequently called "ugly" in lads' mags and gossip blogs.) While its male fanbase is often stereotyped as being composed primarily of Camp Gay men who watch it for the fashion, during its prime it also had a very large contingent of straight male fans, as it featured a ton of female skin and enough of the male perspective (at times) to occupy straight men's interest.
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The Hunger Games, despite (or perhaps because of) it being a particularly girl-powered film with a very feminist slant, gets quite a lot of this. Part of it has to do with the action and the premise and the deep political and social commentary, but the pre-Games scenes also heavily feature Jennifer Lawrence looking drop-dead gorgeous.
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Although not an official Disney Princess, Esmerelda from The Hunchback of Notre Dame attracts this for a very sexy scene where she performs a pole dance for an adoring crowd. She's drawn to be far more voluptuous than the typical Disney heroine, and gets a feisty Action Girl personality too.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was sent to American soldiers during the First World War, who liked it because it reminded them of home. The novel is written from the perspective of a girl, and constantly deals with feminine issues.
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Princess Tutu is a children's anime about a duck who turns into a human girl who falls in love with a prince and goes through a series of ballet dances in fairy tale-like setting. The girly premise would drive men away, right? Despite it's aesthetics it's regarded as one of the darkest Magical Girl anime alongside Madoka Magica with a very well-written story and romance, and it also attracts a lot of male viewers.
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The High School Musical franchise has Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale and, for High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Olivia Rodrigo and Sofia Wylie.
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You're So Cupid! is a 2010 Made-for-TV Movie about teenage sisters playing matchmaker, which was made largely to appeal to the Estrogen Brigade of Jeremy Sumpter. But quite a few guys tuned in to gush over the beauty of Danielle C. Ryan as the Tomboyish sister Emma, with gorgeous blonde hair.
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Shirokuma Cafe is a josei, but it has its loyal male fans.
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America's Next Top Model, as well as any of the other Top Model shows, has enough fetish material and Fanservice to attract male viewers.
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Pocahontas applied a lot of Adaptational Curves to its heroine by Executive Meddling - in real life Pocahontas was only twelve! The animators were told to make her as sexy as possible, so she has a beautiful mane of hair and a skintight dress that teases exotic Fanservice. There's one very gratuitous moment where she's crawling up a rock and her ass is fully on display.
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Mean Girls. While written by a woman and marketed heavily to teen girls, it was released at the height of Lindsay Lohan's "it girl" popularity, and features Lohan and a number of other young women (specifically, former Party of Five star Lacey Chabert and then-unknowns Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried) in provocative dress throughout. It's no surprise that a lot of guys watch it for the hot high school chicks. The original version of the film (the script for which can be read here) was more explicitly targeted at both men and women. As originally written, Mean Girls was a hard-R sex comedy that homaged films like Porky's and American Pie, filled with innuendos, drug references, and topless scenes from Regina and Karen; creator Tina Fey said she originally envisioned it as having "wall-to-wall titties." It was Bowdlerised after Lohan was cast as the lead (she was still considered family-friendly then), and traces of this still show up in the final film.
Mean Girls also has a huge following among gay men, who love the catty characters and endlessly quotable catchphrases.
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Also invoked in an episode of The Big Bang Theory when the girls get a Disney Princess makeover at Disneyland. When Penny walks into Leonard's apartment he immediately drops his pants after seeing her dressed as Aurora. Howard does pretty much the same thing. Poor Amy fails to get Sheldon's attention.
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The Bling Ring is almost an entirely female-centred story, with teenage girls robbing celebrities' clothes and jewellery. The only prominent male character is also gay. But all four female leads, including Emma Watson, are continually done up to the nines, walking around in sexy outfits and showing off their beauty. Marketing even centered around Watson on Fanservice duty, abusing one shot of a seductive tongue roll for advertisements.
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Turning Red: Despite being marketed to tween girls, the movie has developed a huge male fanbase, owing to the cuteness of Mei's red panda form (as well as Mei's natural form and her friends) and the message that anyone can relate to in general (the movie itself has quite a gender-neutral Aesop if you bar the menstruation metaphors).
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A very, very frequent occurrence with teen- and tween-oriented shows, especially American and Australian ones. (And if any British tropers feel the UK is an exception, one word: Hollyoaks.) The lead actresses are often meant to be viewed by such shows' young female fans as the type of people that they wish they were... which includes looking gorgeous. Not surprisingly, appearances in fashion magazines and (for shows that skew a bit older) men's magazines are frequent for the stars of these shows, while those under the age of 18 may find themselves subject to some fairly creepy gushing.
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Jem had and has tons of male fans. Part of it is a LGBT Fanbase, but many boys watched it for the girls.
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998). Much like the above example, this show garnered a decent male fanbase without resorting to Fanservice. Many can speculate as to why, but it's probably no small part due to it being one of the few shows with G-rated ass-whooping on Cartoon Network at the time.
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Despite Madame Web (2024) being a female-oriented superhero movie by virtue of starring 4 heroines, the presence of Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney has attracted the (possibly) unironic interest of male fans. It has been joked that they are the sole reasons for men to invest in yet another film of the so far mixed-to-negatively received SSU that doesn't feature Venom.
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Joked about in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in a radio ad for the Midlife Crisis Center, which asks the listener (presumably a middle-aged suburban dad) if he's sitting in his minivan masturbating while listening to teen pop on the radio trying to feel young again.
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The L Word, as was inevitable for a show about a bunch of very good-looking lesbians. It pandered generously to straight males through extensive sex scenes, making one of the girls bisexual (which ensured at least some scenes would include a straight guy), featuring mainly straight guys in the supporting cast, and reducing gay guys to extras. Series creator Ilene Chaiken publicly claimed that the show would never have been made if it hadn't also brought in a male audience.
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Victorious featured a cast made up of attractive young actresses. While aimed mostly at fellow teenage girls, Elizabeth Gillies, Victoria Justice, Daniella Monet, and Ariana Grande attract a huge amount of interest from guys (and in the latter's case, her music career is only making it grow faster).
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Touken Ranbu, due to its heavy action focus and Jidaigeki setting. It even proved popular enough to have a couple of manga published in Shonen magazines and a completely action-packed adaptation made for the male audience to get into as well.
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H₂O: Just Add Water attracted this around its second season, when its three lead actresses had noticeably gotten older. It's a show about three teenage mermaids, all played by very beautiful actresses. As it's set in Australia, there are plenty of episodes featuring the girls in bikinis or walking around in short-shorts. Plus rather a lot of episodes revolve around parties, so the three leads are often dolled up. Interestingly enough the show doesn't feature that much male Fanservice, with Lewis only getting a couple of shirtless scenes (at least until Will comes along). Both this show and the trope did help make Claire Holt and Phoebe Tonkin make it to the worldwide mainstream when they were brought over to The Vampire Diaries and The Originals.
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Mickie James got over big time with men due to her lesbian stalker gimmick in which she would kiss women and in one instance grabbed Trish's privates and seductively licked her fingers afterwards getting an earth-shattering pop for it. Even after abandoning those characteristics, she still remains popular with male fans due to her sex appeal, Girl Next Door nature and the fact that she, like Trish, can actually wrestle.
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One Disney Princess in particular worth mentioning is Elsa from Frozen, who, despite being a queen and not a princess like her contemporaries, has become probably the most famous animated sex symbol since Jessica Rabbit due to her long blonde hair, clingy outfit, and Supermodel Strut. It helps that Elsa's and Jessica's dresses have similarities. Yes, there are definitely a lot of Elsa fanboys on the internet. This is also the character that made a name for cosplayer Anna Faith Carlson, just for being a really accurate cosplay of Elsa!
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Project Runway to a much lesser degree, but it still has hot girls and sexy moments.
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The Loud House is actually pretty gender-neutral in terms of its target audience, but there's no denying that a LOT of teenage boys and young men take an interest in it.
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Kim Possible, as evidenced by the kind of fanart showing up on DeviantArt and the abundance of Dark Fics.
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Perhaps not so much in the United States, but in Japan and Latin America Cardcaptor Sakura is popular among male viewers, being considered the most successful Magical Girl series since Sailor Moon. There was even a fan-made live action opening made in Japan (Please notice how said opening was played entirely by men.)
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Revolutionary Girl Utena starts as a shoujo Affectionate Parody, intentionally incorporating as many shoujo tropes and themes as possible, but it takes a critical approach to them. Male viewers have been known to come for the Les Yay subtext, and stay for the complex characters, dark themes, and multiple layers of meaning (it is compared with Neon Genesis Evangelion for a reason, after all.)
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Ouran High School Host Club:
Though the article says it is rare, it has a substantial male following for two main reasons — it's very funny, and Haruhi is cute.
There's an in-show Estrogen Brigade for each and every male character, as well as an IRL one.
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Daria: Despite being centered mostly in a female cast (Something very atypical for an adult animated sitcom series, especially at the time) the show managed to avert the Girl-Show Ghetto thanks to its snarky humor and complex characters, as well due its subtle balance of comedy and drama and relatable topics as well.
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The Disney Princesses in general, especially those from the Disney Renaissance. It's been joked that they helped usher an entire generation of adolescent boys into puberty in The '90s.
This is invoked in the first American Pie with Jim gushing over how hot Ariel is (a sentiment Norm Peterson shared years before in an episode of Cheers and Joey Tribbiani shared years later in a late episode of Friends).
Also invoked in an episode of The Big Bang Theory when the girls get a Disney Princess makeover at Disneyland. When Penny walks into Leonard's apartment he immediately drops his pants after seeing her dressed as Aurora. Howard does pretty much the same thing. Poor Amy fails to get Sheldon's attention.
One Disney Princess in particular worth mentioning is Elsa from Frozen, who, despite being a queen and not a princess like her contemporaries, has become probably the most famous animated sex symbol since Jessica Rabbit due to her long blonde hair, clingy outfit, and Supermodel Strut. It helps that Elsa's and Jessica's dresses have similarities. Yes, there are definitely a lot of Elsa fanboys on the internet. This is also the character that made a name for cosplayer Anna Faith Carlson, just for being a really accurate cosplay of Elsa!
Pocahontas applied a lot of Adaptational Curves to its heroine by Executive Meddling - in real life Pocahontas was only twelve! The animators were told to make her as sexy as possible, so she has a beautiful mane of hair and a skintight dress that teases exotic Fanservice. There's one very gratuitous moment where she's crawling up a rock and her ass is fully on display.
Although not an official Disney Princess, Esmerelda from The Hunchback of Notre Dame attracts this for a very sexy scene where she performs a pole dance for an adoring crowd. She's drawn to be far more voluptuous than the typical Disney heroine, and gets a feisty Action Girl personality too.
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Female-fronted symphonic metal bands such as Nightwish, Epica and After Forever. While metal music as a whole already has a very large male following (and an Estrogen Brigade), a good number of these bands' fans are listening and going to concerts for a bit more than just the music.
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The Princess Diaries was what turned Anne Hathaway into a star, and many male fans watched it for her - along with those of Mandy Moore. The character Michael is also something of an Audience Surrogate for boys watching as well, giving them someone to relate to.
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The Partridge Family specifically cast Susan Dey as Laurie to invoke this - so guys watching could have someone to swoon over who wouldn't put off David Cassidy's Estrogen Brigade.
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A large number of male viewers tune into Game of Thrones for the beautiful Emilia Clarke in either flattering costumes or fully nude. The likes of Ygritte (a sexy Action Girl who gets a couple of nude scenes), Osha (an Unkempt Beauty who likewise establishes her seductress credentials in Season 2), Margaery (a gorgeous princess who's also a Nice Girl), Talisa (a Hospital Hottie who also is nude more than once) and arguably Cersei (Lena Headey is very beautiful, and Seasons 1-5 pay lots of attention to her beauty) attract plenty of male admirers. Ellaria as well to a lesser extent, but she didn't show up until Season 4.
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My Babysitter's a Vampire: The show is targeted towards female audiences, but Vanessa Morgan and Kate Todd bring in tons of male fans by themselves.
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The famous "Brony" fanbase is a rare example that doesn't use Fanservice. (Not for most people anyway.) Female Cosplay and Gijinka (personified fanart of non-human characters) of the characters invokes different reactions.
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What male fans exist of the Disney's Tinkerbell movies tend to be a Testosterone Brigade, as there is a surprising amount of fanservice in the films.
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Trish Stratus was a similar case too; the majority of fans fell in love with her stunning looks (male and female) but along the way earned numerous amounts of respect for her desire to improve. So in Trish's case, the fans came for her beauty and stayed for the wrestling.
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The reboot She-Ra and the Princesses of Power gets this even more.
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TWICE is one of the most popular A-list Girl Groups among male K-pop fans, with almost half the fans being male. It helps that - in addition to the girls being really cute and showing endearing personalities in most media when not being Ms. Fanservice on stage, and Tzuyu having been crowned the World's Most Beautiful Woman in 2019 - their music has matured past the bubblegum pop sound of their early years in a way that shows their Hidden Depths without normally feeling aimed almost strictly at girls *  as opposed to "girl crush" groups like BLACKPINK and ITZY, who have brigades of their own but tend to wear their girl power on their sleeves despite their edgier looks and music . This makes Twice one of the most accessible groups to males and females alike.
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Glitch Techs: Thanks to her Hartman Hips and overall cute design, Miko became infamous for inspiring a slew Rule 34 fanart, over a year before the show even premiered.
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Sailor Moon is unmistakably a shoujo series, but the anime owes a fair bit of its global success to how successfully it courts a male following. All the Sailor Senshi are cute, kickass action girls with legs from here to the Moon Kingdom. There are Testosterone Brigades for approximately all ten of the female leads. This includes the Barenaked Ladies, who referenced the show and its "boom anime babes that make me think the wrong thing" in their song "One Week".
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Speaking of CLAMP, X1999 is worth specific mention: technically speaking, it's a Shoujo series, but the dark and violent nature of the plot could lead it to be easily mistaken for Seinen. The many religious/apocalyptic elements of the story made it popular among viewers who are into stuff like Neon Genesis Evangelion.
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The Bring It On movies. For the women that they were aimed at, they're about cheerleading as Serious Business. For men, they're about seeing Eliza Dushku, Kirsten Dunst, Christina Milian, Hayden Panettiere, Ashley Benson, and a whole bunch of other good-looking young women in cheerleading uniforms. Amusingly, one of the TV spots for the original film even intentionally invoked this.
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Fruits Basket has a ton of male fans, but mostly because of the story and characters.
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The same could be said of True Blood and other female-targeted HBO shows, for much the same reason (plus this one doesn't exactly skimp on the gore and violence). Jessica (part-time Magical Girlfriend, full-time Cute Monster Girl) seems to have been created specifically so straight guys would have a character to gush over.
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Gossip Girl, in the same vein as Mean Girls, is about elite high school girls and features a lot of cattiness and girl-oriented stories. But the fact that its two leads are the fantastically beautiful Blake Lively and Leighton Meester, and later on Jessica Szohr and numerous stunningly pretty guest stars - and the camera letting you experience their beauty to its full extent - gave plenty of straight men opportunities to tune in.
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Pretty Cure is similar to Sailor Moon in that it has a large crossover demographic—at least in Japan. It has a long-standing reputation for in-your-face fist fights and No Holds Barred Beat Down to a degree that was uncommon in it's shoujo predecessors, since the tone-setting director for the first installments of the franchise is best known for Dragon Ball Z.
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Like how its sister series can attract the other way around, THE iDOLM@STER: SideM has quite the Brigade of its own. The great music, interactions, and wide range of character types have drawn in male players from previous installments, and for those of a different persuasion, it helps that there's a sizeable amount of eye candy in the cast.
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Most Diva fans hated Maria Kanellis during her WWE run (she was mocked on Diva Dirt for a long time). Male fans loved her, for obvious reasons.
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The producers of Charmed tried to invoke this around the fifth season and so made sure the actresses' clothing was as sexy as possible. They also created plenty of episode plots where the sisters would be transformed into various magical creatures that required a different skimpy outfit. Alyssa Milano got the worst of it; a common joke was that her belly button deserved its own billing in the opening credits. (In fairness, a series with Shannen Doherty, Rose McGowan, Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano and from season 8 Kaley Cuoco was always going to have this.)
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch was about a a witch called Sabrina, and dealt with lots of teenage girl issues - while the majority of the cast was female (her two aunts, best friend and Alpha Bitch), only her boyfriend Harvey and the talking cat Salem as male presences. Of course, given that Melissa Joan Hart was gorgeous, as were her aunts and the other guest stars - and the magic elements, along with genuinely funny writing - it went down in history as a hallmark of many 90s and 2000s kids' childhoods. In her autobiography, Melissa even described the show as "a geek's wet dream".
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Part of Missions of Love's appeal is that Yukina is a really hot, unusually busty, smart and independent girl who likes to take the lead. Guys really dig that.
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Total Divas has a huge male fanbase. Producers likely had this trope in mind - which is probably why wherever the Divas go, they always have perfect hair, perfect make-up and flattering clothes. Various episodes feature the girls going on vacations (getting them into bikinis) and even multiple appearances by a sex therapist. The show draws roughly a million viewers every week and not all of them are women.
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Bee and Puppycat: A cartoon heavily influenced by Shoujo anime, which only needed two short episodes to become one of the most popular animations from Cartoon Hangover, along with Bravest Warriors, which seems to be well liked by male viewers who enjoy stuff like Adventure Time. Considering that it was created by an artist from that series this isn´t very surprising.
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This is invoked in the first American Pie with Jim gushing over how hot Ariel is (a sentiment Norm Peterson shared years before in an episode of Cheers and Joey Tribbiani shared years later in a late episode of Friends).
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Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse has a diverse following that the creators actively nod to, complete with scads and scads of Shout Outs. The following has been likened to that for My Little Pony, even spurring the epithet "Brobies", but "Dreamhousers" (as they prefer to be called) reject the comparison.
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