[Alissa]

As a woman who has much experience with dealing with gays (a family member and my vocation), I can assure you Shepard is not effeminate. If anything, he's bordering on being a womanizer. He always slipping a sexy clip of a skimpily clad female in his reports and then "jokingly" refers to it as "news" while practically drooling all over his notes!

[Hank Rearden]

Overcompensating?

Just check his makeup - he's Wacko Jacko material.