What is "gay face"?

[grude]

So I was reading about Jason Russell masturbating in public and people in the comments imply he is actually gay and has a “gay face”.

So the dude I dunno looks like a aspiring actor and is definitely in shape, so what the hell are people talking about?

[Mangetout]

No idea. Maybe they have something like this in mind.

[Larry_Mudd]

It’s best not to contemplate the significance of most internet news article comments, it’ll only get you down.

[drastic_quench]

You can’t beat Urban Dictionary for stuff like this.

While you’re there, consider giving a thumbs up for my definition of smooth-brained - an insult that needs to make a comeback.

[Onomatopoeia]

Ted Haggard

[VinylTurnip]

Can’t define it, but I know it when I see it.

[Beware_of_Doug]

Got little bitty eyes that are not sunken or squinty is my guess.

Jim J. Bullock looks like that.

[PandaBear77]

IME when the “gay face” in question belongs to a male it’s generally gorgeous.*

sigh

*Not that I find Jason Russell attractive. Ew.

[Revtim]

@Onomatopoeia

Ted Haggard

That’s who I thought of when I read this thread’s title. Don’t know what it is exactly, but that guy’s face is gayer than a sperm on a mustache.

[thelurkinghorror]

@drastic_quench

You can’t beat Urban Dictionary for stuff like this.

While you’re there, consider giving a thumbs up for my definition of smooth-brained - an insult that needs to make a comeback.

NERD!

You need to keep up to the normal UD caliber. Namely, you should’ve put: “Smooth brain is wut Steve Jones’ mom gives me after I shave down there hurhurhur.”
I’d think that if the face is buried in (another) man’s crotch, it is more likely that it is a gay face. If the face is buried in his own crotch, that’s just skilled.

I don’t know who this guy is, but Googling him: FYI there is a fine, difficult to notice line between fabuously gay and ironically hipster. Also, if I ever got THAT drunk, I certainly wouldn’t be able to get it up enough to masturbate, let alone in public.

[TruCelt]

I think its the way the muscles right around the nostrils are tensed. As if the nstrils are being held permanently flared, or a half-disgust face was being disguised as a smile. I see it in all of the linked pics.

That said, the quote from his wife would tend to put the lie to any hypothesis we can muster. . . but I’m old-fashioned that way.

[Steken]

@TruCelt

I think its the way the muscles right around the nostrils are tensed. As if the nstrils are being held permanently flared, or a half-disgust face was being disguised as a smile. I see it in all of the linked pics.

That said, the quote from his wife would tend to put the lie to any hypothesis we can muster. . . but I’m old-fashioned that way.

Which quote from his wife?

[Happy_Lendervedder]

I’ve thought Marcus Bachmannhas a pretty gay face. Very feminine expressions on a man’s face.

[Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge]

@Happy_Lendervedder

I’ve thought Marcus Bachmannhas a pretty gay face. Very feminine expressions on a man’s face.

Haha. That picture is the very definition of gayface.

[Happy_Lendervedder]

@Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge

Haha. That picture is the very definition of gayface.

There’s actually two; a link under each name, but they didn’t separate very well. I’d say ol’ Marcus could be a gayface model.

[Sethcrzygy86]

Daniel Radcliff

[don_t_ask]

I heard the phrase used in a movie on TV only a couple of nights ago.

In Green Zone a reluctant subordinate asks Matt Damon’s character how he knows that they are not being lead into an ambush. He admits that he doesn’t and then, looking like a man used to being obeyed, says:
*
“Get your fucking gay face on.”*

[Rigamarole]

Gay face is absolutely real, and it’s been scientifically proven (in both homosexual men and women). Cites:

Sexual Orientation Perception Involves Gendered Facial Cues

Perceivers can accurately judge a face’s sexual orientation, but the perceptual mechanisms mediating this remain obscure.

Female sexual orientation is perceived accurately, rapidly, and automatically from the face and its features

Whereas previous work has shown that male sexual orientation can be accurately and rapidly perceived from the human face and its individual features, no study has examined the judgment of female sexual orientation. To fill this gap, the current work examined the accuracy, speed, and automaticity of judgments of female sexual orientation from the face and from facial features. Study 1 showed that female sexual orientation could be accurately judged from the face and from just eyes without brows and limited to the outer canthi. Study 2 then examined the speed and efficiency of these judgments, showing that judgments of the faces following very brief, near subliminal (40 ms) exposures were significantly better than chance guessing.

[Foggy]

@Sethcrzygy86

Daniel Radcliff

[TruCelt]

@Steken

Which quote from his wife?

Sorry about that. I thoguht it was one of the above links, but I guess I got there from the picture. And now I can’t find it, but here;s another source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jason-russell-man-behind-viral-kony-2012-video-drugs-alcohol-detained-cops-wife-article-1.1041359?localLinksEnabled=false