Would you want your child to be taught by someone who looked like this?

I realised today that the only reason this is news at all is because of the outlandish size of this teacher's prosthetics. Were they within the realms of believability, nobody would have said a thing.

Surely if this were real there would have been more of a fuss

the thing is there has been a fuss for years! Women on this board and elsewhere have been trying to tell everyone that this is what trans ideology is demanding: men openly parading their misogyny fetish in the workplace and around children in the education system, and no one able to do anything about it because that would be “transphobia.” We’ve been pointing out for a long time that unions and press and police and social workers and the third sector are either asleep at the wheel or actively steering us into the iceberg.

there’s a lot worse than this happening; women are being locked up in prison cells with rapists and serial killers. It’s just that there’s video evidence of this guy so it’s impossible to be in denial about the sheer insanity and misogyny of what is happening.

Well it’s just ludicrous. I didn’t believe it really until I saw the statements and the video from the school.

I just can't quite believe it

Surely if this were real there would have been more of a fuss

There have been statements from the school, I'm not sure how much more 'real' you're expecting?

Surely if this were real there would have been more of a fuss

Unsurprisingly pathetic coverage from the CBC. No photo of the boob-bedecked teacher, just that it’s not this Stephen fella. No discussion of fetishes or misogyny or safeguarding.

www.hdsb.ca/our-board/Pages/News/News-Description.aspx?NewsID=1044

This is how CBC have covered it. Absolute cowards. I utterly despair of Canada.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/oakville-teacher-viral-reports-trafalgar-high-school-1.6588711

That tweet has been deleted. Good news? Bad news?

Sharon's quite sharp, isn't she.

This reminds me of an episode of RuPaul's Drag Race (awaiting the criticism for watching it), where Sharon Osbourne judges some of the (heterosexual) guests dragged up, and says to one guy with a huge bust "I bet you've got a stiffy under that dress".

Yes, inevitably teaching is always going to be a profession that attracts people with bad intent, unfortunately. That's why you sort of expecting robust safeguarding, and that's why it's so shocking when it's absent. This isn't even just absent, it's actively taking the principles of safeguarding and setting them on fire.

Weird as it is to agree with Matt Walsh, he’s absolutely right that there is no rock bottom here. A teacher could show up in Canada dressed as a furry, or in bdsm gear and it appears that most school districts would not do a damn thing about it.

I was talking to a friend the other day who works in a school and I mentioned a teacher who’d lost his teaching license due to a sexual involvement of a student (student aged 16-17). She said it goes on all the time, just some of them get caught. There was another one caught the previous year (this is in a city so multiple schools). So it doesn’t entirely surprise me that some of these perverts view work as a “bring your fetish to school day” opportunity.

Awareness of safeguarding in Canada is nowhere near what it is in the UK.

Pleased to hear Matt Lucas accurately identifying this as sexual harassment of the children. I'd add to that women as well.
Although I suspect that in the UK, schools with staff dress codes would be able to stop this (as would the national professional teachers' standards), there are enough useful idiots promoting drag queen story time to children that furthers this safeguarding breaching approach (including a minority of head teachers who have encouraged these unsuitable adults into their schools).

If I saw that coming towards me in a dark street I would turn and run, never mind having him teach in a school.

It is ridiculous. He could easily buy a smaller pair. I agree it is slightly complex an issue as plenty of women and presumably some teachers get breast enhancement surgery but they probably wear a jacket and top over it rather than turning up in a micro skirt, high heels, stockings and not much of a top on.

I suppose very obese 25 stone teachers might also get a bit too close to the bunsen burners in the way this person might with the massive stick on br easts but it just seems Canada has lost all common sense over this.

And on top of that, it's just so offensive and demeaning as a woman looking at the caricature of women he's portraying here. I never really realised as much how unimportant our views really are in society still

I'm sure most women have experience of having our "gender expression" policed in the workplace. Off the top of my head, I can think of a friend with a naturally large bust whose manager (female) told her not to wear such low cut tops to work because it distracted the men in the office, a colleague who was politely asked to wear less tight bodycon dresses in a professional services environment, and the time my friend got called in by her boss for wearing short shorts on dress down friday.

We can discuss where the line should be and which of those examples are and aren't appropriate, but most of us would probably agree there should be a line somewhere. So why is the school allowing this teacher to dress in a way which would almost certainly cross the line if they were female?

Matt Walsh:

Tucker Carlson on the story: 'Kids are being used as props in sexual fantasies'

So. Kayla Lemieux is defended by the school board. Parents seem disinclined to protest. Kayla is not even going to be asked to tie the wig back for safety reasons?

What will Kayla do next?

And this is where the real danger lies. Becoming so ‘woke’ that expressions of fetishism in front of children are ignored, in order to appear ‘right on’. It’s a form of grooming and boundary testing. Confuse children as to what is and isn’t acceptable. Make them question themselves and their instincts and hey presto, before you know it…well, you know it. I don’t need to say it.

The absence of bullshit is strangely unsettling.

Ah don't worry, there's a fair amount on Twitter.

Along the lines of 'if the esteemed woman wants to parade around with the big balloon tits, that's her truth, who are we to judge, try not to be so blinkered'.

'we stand firmly in support of our teachers' says Curtis Ennis of the district school board.

I'm not sure I needed that mental image.