The anime of Marimite, for example, was aimed at men primarily. The same goes for Strawberry Panic(this one is the only one you identify correctly, probably by accident). This is because the “sisterhood”-like yuri is very popular among male yuri fans, who generally frown upon yuri that is lasting. The novels of Marimite, thus the original works, were not even intended as yuri. It just had a (failed) yuri side couple.

Kannazuki no Miko and Simoun both, however, were not aimed primarily at men. Both were explicitely aimed at both genders. This is extremely evident in the case of Kannazuki, which even mentiones boy love and introduced tremendous male/male subtext for three characters. Simoun does the same, albeit indirectly, and also ends up with a m/m couple.
On top of it, Kannazuki is written like a yaoi show, just with female main characters. Many of its commercials were also aimed at female fans.

In all four cases, we know the target audience of the shows because the directors stated them themselves. But as we see in your judgement of the shows: Many people, especially out of japan, get completely confused here, and mislabel animes almost entirely. Something like Kannazuki - which has a primarily female following - suddenly is just exploitive stuff for guys, while Marimite - which has a HUGE amount of male fans - is suddenly romantic drama for women(which misunderstands the anime a lot, by the way, as most of the drama is not intended to be romantic).

This is a problem, because companies will also get confused, and misaim animes. This is prone to diminish their success a great deal.