Are there a lot of men that enjoy TGCF?

Weird question, I know. I was just wondering because I watched the donghua for TGCF with my brothers (both straight) and they actually seemed to enjoy it! One of them knew quite a bit about the story before I did and the other is planning on reading the books. I keep on bothering them about reading it so we can geek about it together, but then I realized a romance between two pretty bishounen men probably isn't appealing to most guys lol. Sure it's an adventurous story with quite a bit of fight scenes, cool world-building, and pretty deep plot, but it's still a romance book written by a female author who is very much trying to appeal to the female gaze (thank you MXTX).

In short, I'm curious to know how many men know/are fans of TGCF