[Nepeta]

ALL sci-fi is for young males.
Or it isn’t sci-fi.

Hogwash.

Even when the genre was aimed at young males, many of the writers were women hiding behind male pen names.

Twilight Zone was certainly NOT aimed at young males exclusively, nor was Outer Limits, but on balance both presented some good science fiction.

[mrsmith]

“Twilight Zone was certainly NOT aimed at young males exclusively”
No. As I said, it was aimed at young males INclusively.

TV shows in the day of 3 networks tried to appeal to all the members of the family during prime time. Twilight Zone and Outer Limits (to a lesser extent) did an exceptional job of maintaining the appeal to young males while expanding the audience- an artistic benefit of the commercial pressure they were under.
The commercial pressure of today is to appeal to the most profitable ‘dumb slut’ demographics. Hence: “Asylum’ and the flaws in ‘John Carter’ and ‘Starship Troopers’.