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'''Examples:'''
* [[Male Frontal Nudity]], or any form of male nudity really, is the definitve example of this. On this very wiki, count just how many times this is counted as [[Fan Disservice]]. Did anyone actually '''ask''' female viewers their opinion about male nudity? No. Most denouncers of [[Male Frontal Nudity]] believe that it's gross pandering to gay males. Because, apparently, women only watch [[Chick Flick|Chick Flicks]] and aren't interested in the male body. [[Sarcasm Mode|Yeah...]]
* Likewise, many male viewers who think [[Girl
* [[Fan Service]] in video games is a...touchy subject, to say the least. When it's aimed at men, female gamers complain. When it's aimed at women, male gamers complain. And in franchises in which the fanservice is more or less equal-opportunity (''[[Soul Calibur]]'', ''[[Final Fantasy]]'', ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', etc.), half the fanbase will inevitably complain about those parts of the game intended as fanservice for [[Not So Different|the other half]].
* This is part of the reason why a very vocal female ''[[Star Control]] II'' fan created the [http://zarla.livejournal.com/192372.html Secret Theater]. If you can have virtual sex with the gorgeous, humanoid, initially strictly platonic (or so she pretends) [[Hot Amazon|Commander]] [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|Talana]], why can't you do the same with [[Naughty Tentacles|Admiral]] [[Ho Yay|ZEX]], who's not attractive by most human standards but is smitten with you ''immediately''? Or, put another way: Talana [[Squick|Squicks]] almost no one, unless you consider the [[Unfortunate Implications]] that she may be sleeping with the captain because he is able to save her people; ZEX is a [[Squick]] factory to most fans but a [[Perverse Sexual Lust|trans-human lust object]] to others.
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* ''[[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]]''. Some people are creeped out because [[Older Than They Look|Edward's 100]], some people don't like the [[Crazy Jealous Guy|abusive undertones]], some people don't like that S. Meyer claims to be a feminist when Bella does nothing proactive, and [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|some people put pictures of Edward on the ceiling above their bed]].
* The Buffy/Angel relationship in the early seasons of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' was creepy for the same reasons as the Bella/Edward relationship in ''Twilight'' . He's obviously a lot older and more experienced than she is, and-unlike Edward- has also tortured and raped a number of women (albeit in his soulless form) . Pretending to be divided on the subject on the morality of about the matter seems a little manipulative and creepy, since he's the one who has had centuries to practice relationships. Also, the whole tortured-soul-who-needs-to-be-rescued-by-romance-and-sex seems like too good way to get naive girls into bed. The old "Anne Rice Routine", as another character described it in-universe.
* As noted on the [[Double Standard Rape (Female On Female)]] page, a popular [[Double Standard]] is the idea that the rape of a woman by another woman is not "real" rape, and so it becomes [[Selective Squick]]. Women don't have penises to rape with so it "doesn't count", so regardless of how one might feel about rape scenes in general, female-on-female rape is the exception.
* For many people, horrific violence at a young age is just fine, but sex is not. For instance, in the setting of Naruto, 12 year olds have to deal with potentially life threatening missions, and can participate in an exam that involves a survival test where people are expected to die (by participants killing each other), followed by a tournament where more people may die. And on passing said exam they'll have to take responsibility for their teammates' lives. Lots of fanfic writers don't seem to find any issue with writing about that, but balk at the idea of the characters having consensual sex (sometimes explicitly made clear in the author's comments) and resort to reaching the timeskip as quickly as possible, or just inexplicably bumping the characters in age.
* This also happens in [[Real Life]]: It is remarkable how many men can be [[Squick|squicked out of]] [[Brain Bleach|their minds]] by merely mentioning that something resembles a penis (state of arousal not important) or mentioning the word "menstruation" with no gory details given at all. What makes it even more amusing is that they often get much more annoyed than a woman would ever get from similar remarks made by a guy about women.
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