>>214514210
Sex appeal doesn't sell an entertainment product on its own, but when they aggressively uglify or desexualize the women or avoid casting women who men actually want to look at, it makes men not want to watch. Especially if the women are prominent and the genre is obviously fertile for sexy costumes and camera angles. When you have a female protagonist in a naturally male-oriented genre, you're already pushing a stone uphill, but when you do this, that slope becomes 90 degrees and you're just laying there with a boulder on top of you.

I don't think that Sweeney could save the M-She-U, but they probably could have gotten a few more views on streaming if they didn't do this to her.