Does anyone else agree that recent Disney movies should not count as having Estrogen Brigades because their fandoms have always been female dominated? I feel like there should be another Trope for cases where there is a predominantly female audience but a small portion of it is just yaoi obsessed or whatever, and the rest of the fandom hates them. That's definitely not Estrogen Brigade.
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Yeah, upon reflection, the description of this trope refers to it as the name for a relatively smaller group of female fans that became attracted to a work because of hot male characters. The examples, on the other hand, treat the term Estrogen Brigade as the name for groups of female fangirls that follow a particular male character (e.g. David Tennant's Estrogen Brigade).
Should the description be expanded or the examples culled?
Say, is it really even necessary to make the "within a traditionally male-dominated fandom" distinction for this trope?
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From reading some of the discussion surrounding this trope and Mr. Fanservice, I think I now understand the trope better. It's not just "he has female fans" (which would leave out Justin Bieber). It's a work where a significant portion of the female fanbase were initially attracted to the hot male characters - although it is possible for some of them to, later on, decide that also like other aspects of the show.
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I don't think that, if you make male-dominated fandom" a requirement for this trope, Harry Potter is an example of this. The Harry Potter series was never aimed at a male audience, nor was the fandom ever male-dominated.
Isn't there also a distaff counterpart to this trope? You know, like when a guy only watches something because of a hot chick?
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I'm a bit confused... it appears that this trope is specifically about when a female fandom is attracted to a male-oriented show due to Perverse Sexual Lust, but with Testosterone Brigade, it's just used to mean "a male Periphery Demographic for female-oriented media".
See the trope picture... barring a few cloppers here or there, I'm assuming the Bronies aren't there out of PSL.
Evil is my favorite color.
Can this and Testosterone Brigade get renamed? Emphasis on hormones as proof of gender kind of falls into transphobic rhetoric that your gender = your body and the hormones it produces.