Benedict Cumberbatch is not the “problem child” some fans want to make out of him…

So, Benedict is laughing about his sex symbol status and now some fans trying to  interprete his quotes in today’s SUN to make him look like some emotional wreck who has to be protected from the bad world. It’s making me sick, so I had to write it down…  

Some “fans” put much too much broody thoughts into those things…

I bet Benedict is absolutely comfortable with himself, and the fact that he doesn’t think of himself as “the sexiest man in the world” makes him even more sexy. Really really fucking sexy. Because men who know that they are sexy are an unparalleled turn-off.

People who know Benedict can report that he’s always been one of the cool guys - in school, in university etc. - and so you don’t have to think of him as some poor nerd who’s fraud with problems. I’m absolutely sure that he’s always been a lady’s man, men like him just are. And that makes the fact that he’s been in a relationship with a woman for 12 years at a young age ridiculously sexy… nothing is sexier than consistency in a man…

He might not match some simpler ideals of beauty - I mean, he’s no Channing Tatum or Chris Pine with their small noses and perfect teeth - but, dear God, he is a fucking attractive man with beautiful eyes, beautiful hair, beautiful skin, a fantastic body, a breathtaking voice… I could go on and on…  and everybody who has ever seen him in person knows that. Women who meet him in person fall for him on the spot, it’s just this aura he has. He dosn’t need perfect teeth or a tan or an average face to appeal… It’s just him BEING, that’s enough to make people weak in their knees, women AND men…

It’s ridiculous that people think he has no self-esteem because he giggles about being called the sexiest man alive. I bet even Brad Pitt giggles about his status as a sex symbol - and I bet Angelina Jolie giggles about it, too. A healthy person with good judgement just has to giggle when confronted with a ridiculous title like that.

Benedict just has a healthy self-image. He doesn’t need titles like “sexiest man alive” to be self-conscious, unlike people like Ryan Reynolds, who pay People’s magazine money to get on their list. 

Benedict knows who he is, he knows he has a great talent and a bigger brain then 90 % of humanity, and you just can read from his body language that he’s abolutely in peace with the world and himself. Just look at him on that BAFTA stage on sunday, he oozes charisma and self-confidence. He may have been told he’s not attractive enough for certain roles by some stupid agents or casting directors with no balls, but he is intelligent enough to know what that means: that he’s not average looking enough. In the movie world, beautiful means everything average - and boring. Benedict is many things, but he is not average, not in a single way. Some people may find that unattractive or scary or repelling, people like Benedict make them uncomfortable because his looks doesn’t fit in their simple world view full of shallow daytime TV beauty and his skills as an actor and big brains and beautiful character are too much for them to handle - but most people find a man like him  interesting and fanciable. People who count.

Thousands of thousands of women want to see him in those roles he didn’t get in the past, in romantic dramas or comedies, and now he owns the status to get those roles - and he WILL get them. So stop trying to make him look like some ugly duckling. He is not.

He is one of the most beautiful men I have ever seen, and I don’t just say that because I’m a devoted fan. I saw him on my telly as Sherlock, I didn’t know him, and I thought “Oh God, what a fantastic, expressive face”. I fell in love with his face on the spot, not with his voice or his talent, or his brains - with his fucking beautiful face.

I know a lot of men who want to be like him, look like him, walk like him, talk like him. He is perfect mancrush material: virile, tall, strong, handsome without being too cute… who owns a “real” body, with “real” muscles, a body men can identify with… who has humour and a heart and who says what he wants. Many many many men want to be like Benedict Cumberbatch, and that’s sexy, too…

There may be people who don’t see that, there may be MANY people even, but that doesn’t make Benedict unattractive. It makes him FUCKING INTERESTING. Fascinating, mesmerizing. He is a human being that leaves noone cold. THAT is star quality. 

So stop pitying him or transfering your own psychological problems to him. If you are looking for some tortured creature to fangirl over, take the late Michael Jackson or something. Leave Benedict alone. He is born to be a star, he is gorgeous, he is brilliant, he has it all - he just isn’t your vain average Hollywood star who needs to see himself in every tabloid to feel loved. Live with it.

hungariansherlockian:

I can’t stop laughing at these photos.

The publicist is dragging him away like he’s a school boy in a candy shop.

But he’s just interacting with fans.

Benedict Cumberbatch talks to fans and needs to be dragged away. Your argument is invalid.

Photos: marynjswt.tumblr.com　

Yes. And may I call attention for that gorgeous curve of his bum and thigh beneath that jacket?

Benedict Cumberbatch convinces more and more doubters of his unbearable sexiness…

OK, I get it now. Benedict Cumberbatch looked hot on the Bafta red carpet

And the Sherlock star says he doesn’t get why people think he’s sexy! #swoon

Benedict Cumberbatch looked hot at the Baftas. Literally.

There are many perks to being the deputy editor of Now magazine - but one of the best is that we spend a healthy chunk of most days poring over pictures of celebrity men and debating who we think is hottest right now. (It’s hard work, alright.)

Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch’s name often comes up in these heated discussions and I’ve got to say for months I just haven’t got it. 

Editor Sally has long been a Cumber-bitch describing ‘those sea-green eyes that could make any cold-blooded murderess confess on the spot’.

The thing is *technically* he’s not hot is he? 

I’ve long stared at episodes of Sherlockmystified by what I’m supposed to see in him that’s sexy. 

The deathly pallor of a corpse, the lanky schoolboy posture, that awkward smile…Brad Pitt’s not having any sleepless nights is he?

But then he walked down the Bafta red carpet on Sunday night. And boy can that man work a black tie. 

He was also hot. I mean, genuinely hot.

Overheated in his suit as temperatues in London sweltered to 27C, Benedictcould easily have slunk into the Royal Festival Hall where the event was taking place and bypassed all his swooning fans.

Instead he made an effort to sign so many autographs he had to go inside and put ice cubes on his wrists afterwards. 

Kindness? Now that’s a quality I can admire.

When asked what it was about him that made him so sexy, the 35-year-old Bafta nominee laughed: ‘I don’t know about being the sexiest man in the world. I am barely the sexiest man in my flat and I’m the only guy living there. 

‘It makes me laugh because I see all the faults - I have spent 35 years of my life with myself.’

Humiliy too? Smooth moves, Mr Holmes.

Add *those* topless pictures of him on the beach that we published in Now last week to the mix, and I think I’m starting to get where all you women who want to be Cumberbatched are coming from…

I just spilled my heart out on The Sun article about Benedict winning the Sexist Man vote

safetytorch:

There were, of course, a lot of people saying that he definitely isn’t sexy, so I decided I’d express my opinion.
It was really long.
But worth it

Well done. You (maybe) can argue about his looks, because looks are a matter of taste, but you cannot argue about that he has tons of sexual charisma. He just has it. He’s such an alpha male… you just cannot deny that.