So let's start with something everyone on an FF board knows: Final Fantasy X-2. Guys will swear it's a girly game and they can't be seen playing it. Yet, I don't think they included the hot springs scene or designed the Dresspheres for girls. Well...most girls.

Yet this is hardly an isolated incident. There was another popular thing around the time of X-2 I was just reminded of.


A comment with a ridiculous number of likes - something like 500 - on a TS video says "I can never admit to my guy friends I watched this."

But why? Did you see what the girls were wearing? Did you ever see how obviously Clover was intended to be crush material for boys? (mission accomplished for young me,BTW)

It's just really bizarre. I suppose the latest example is something like MLP but I never watched that. But it feels like there are so many of these fictional franchises that are "oozing girliness" yet are clearly also steeped in blatant appeal to boys and men.