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This guy comes up in a lot of discussions of “effeminate straight men.” I had never seen the guy on video before and this was my first exposure to him. You go on a lot of forums and you see these endless comments like, “Who is this fag?!”
I checked him out because I am interested in the phenomenon of so called effeminate straight men although I think they hardly exist.
From right off the get-go from when he walked towards the stage, I knew this guy was straight. First of all, I could tell by his face. Straight men have a certain something about their face a lot of times. Their face has a “masculine” wear about it or their face somehow “looks masculine.” Now by this I do not mean how they were born. But the fact is that there are all sorts of different ways of “carrying your face” so to speak.
Gay men often exude effeminacy and it shows up all through their face. A masculine man simply “carries his face” in a masculine way. It is hard to describe but the only way I can describe it is that such things as masculinity, femininity and effeminacy are expressed in our faces somehow via our emotions, thoughts and vibes.
What is interesting about this is that over time, these ways of “carrying the face” actually tend to carve the face into particular shapes. It has been argued that many gay men have expressed certain effeminate emotions facially so many times that the effeminacy is by now actually carved into their faces naturally.
About two minutes into the video, and I had this Brand guy all figured out. First of all, he’s not effeminate at all. Back in the 1970’s, this is how you were supposed to act. If you wanted to drown in pussy, you put on this act X 10 and no one thought a thing about it. You would be assumed to be straight until proven otherwise with good solid evidence and you would not be called gay very often.
The behavior that he is doing is simply 1970’s rock star androgyne. This guy is just Mick Jagger born too late. The clothes are just some glam androgyne get up that he is doing for some funny reason and they don’t have much to do with him as a person. I think he might be wearing those clothes just to get a rise out of people and piss people off.
I also noticed how he was interacting with the four females on the board. I could tell immediately that he is attracted to females simply by the way he was acting around these women. He said, “It’s so nice to be with a group of women.” This type is “the player.” There are two kinds of men who like to hang around women all the time:
- Gay men.
- Players, womanizers, manwhores, etc.
This guy is in the second category. When he interacts with these women, you can see his sexual energy almost radiating out of his body in all of their directions. It’s like he wants to fuck every woman on the panel.
I would agree that he has a feminine aspect but all androgynes do. But I get a very strong masculine vibe off this guy. A man with a strong masculine vibe who also has a visible feminine aspect is the very definition of a strong androgyne. That both of these aspects are quite strong and often going at the same time is why true androgynes are so confusing. Nobody knows what to make of them.
Bottom line is I do not think this Russel Brand is effeminate at all. That behavior you see as effeminate is actually his feminine aspect settling into its natural role as he is surrounded by his own kind (women). Another thing that is mistaken for effeminacy is his strong sexual energy towards these women. This sexual energy is extremely sexy (indeed he exudes sex from every pore as many androgynes do) and men who are acting very sexy often seem to be mimicking a female sort of sexiness – soft, fluid, flowing, insinuating, intimate.
All in all, he comes across sort of like Paul Stanley.
PS, this Brand character also clowns around a lot. You notice his main mode is simply clowning. Look at all the funny faces he makes.
