Biggus Titus of Oxford University

If it were him, he seems to be a bit too dim to be teaching at one of our most prestigious universities.

I suspect it being unclear doesn't matter to OF so long as OF is made to look woke and wonderful for teaching the person and not noticing the fact that they're not like most people. (Not sure what the point of the person's "rebellion" is, apart from the same urge that made previous generations of students go on protest marches about this and that when they often had difficulty explaining what they actually were about.)

Even though OF has of course noticed, and in fact is boasting online about this person proving how generally magnificent and unbiased OF is.

It's not at all clear whether this person is a crossdressing man or a woman who wants people to pretend they think she's a man even though she looks like a woman (because she is one).

That is an interesting thought. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, the transvestites I knew seemed mostly to wear what I would describe as "middle-class suburban-housewife-chic"; they may indeed have been attempting to look like their mothers or aunts dressed up for a day shopping "down town". Twin set and pearls territory, which no woman I knew in the circles we were all moving in would have dreamed of wearing for a weekend that wasn't a cosplay event of some sort.

And whereas almost every woman I knew wore flat, comfortable shoes for weekends spent mostly on our feet, these lads always but always wore stiletto heeled court shoes, and almost all complained bitterly about how difficult it was to find those in size nine or ten. You could instantly spot the women-not-women by looking at their feet, you didn't even need to clock their throats or hands in order to be sure about it.

On a slightly different though: how the hell can anyone be accused of "othering" anyone who has made such an enormous and conscious effort to be different from everyone else in the town, other? Matt Rattley is other by his own deliberate act; as far as I could ever make out, the transvestites of an earlier age wanted nothing more than to blend in, somehow, somewhere, and not be noticed and despised – as Matt Rattley is certainly despised, even though it is hardly possible for anyone else to other him.

I just had a a revision session with a finalist today who uses he/him pronouns but dresses as a woman.

I'm sure others have asked you to clarify, but "dresses as a woman"? Do you mean:

• man (small gamete producer)
• wears dresses and/or make up

???

I'm a woman (large gamete producer) who's wearing trousers & boots todaty, so now I'm confused - am I dressing as a man ...?

yes quite good points from @KnottyAuty and @Catiette

So many people come on here and their stories just reek of being made up : convenient facts, personal history and connections appearing just like magic as the argument requires. It's like "OK, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" or even "if you're going to come on here with social capital at 0.0, giving it the big I'm this and I've done that, don't expect immediate uncritical belief".

A few (but perhaps not many) folk seem to figure that out and try to play the reasonable game to build up some social capital before the nonsense begins. That lasts on average 3 days to a week before it's all YOU ARE TRANSPHOBIC BASTARDS GANGING UP ON ME HOW DARE YOU MAKE MY TRANS HAMSTER SUICIDIC, I QUIT but will continue to post for far too long before I eventually get bored of my own douchey persona, and silently flounce

This is the question that I come back to repeatedly.

I've never had a reasonable answer.

https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3209&context=cklawreview
I read this article - it's called Drag = Blackface years ago, and the concluding sentence sums things up for me:
'Likewise, the drag queen is a symbol of everything women reject in men's thinking about gender, and the relish of drag performance - by performer and audience alike - is* *every woman's gall.'

or the other way and very Mumsy but from a bygone era

That has reminded me of James Oswald's Madame Rose. I read some of his books years ago, before I knew anything about 'trans' but did have knowledge of transvestite men. I'm not sure I can be bothered reading any of his more recent work to see how he's making his land lie now.

Yes, haven't you just.

They covet what they see every day, to paraphrase a famous film where the skinwalking villain was based on three real serial killers.

Want to be, or want to erase/ control/ dominate.

I believe many late-onset male transitioners are driven by a subconscious drive to unwrite/overwrite the existence of a specific woman they feel took/insulted their power. "Being" her as she "should" have been redresses the balance for their ego. What better way to show power over someone, to dismiss them utterly, than take their actual identity and make it yours?

Some men have a specific woman from their past in mind when they make these clothing choices. The woman that they wanted to be.

@MrsOvertonsWindow great post. We see the behaviours for what they are. Manipulation. Accordingly the TRAs know we know so have sanitised and reframed the language they use to make themselves seem kind and civilised whilst we as sex realists are portrayed as hysterical harridans.

I am often blown away by the men in frocks and their dress sense. It is either massively inappropriate such as fishnets etc or the other way and very Mumsy but from a bygone era. Stephen the endometriosis guy dresses like a head teacher / Margaret Thatcher - all column dresses or block colour suits. Office wear type clothing from the 1980s/90s with sheer tights in nude colours - I haven’t dressed like that in years and neither have my peers.

I missed that! Yes, I’m keen to see that question answered too. Hopefully OF will be back soon to put us out of our misery🤞🏻

I think it's very clear that what would make OF (ha, unfortunate initials!) uncomfortable in a tutorial room is being asked the very basic question "why is a male person wearing fake tits ok when a British person wearing a Sombrero or a white person wearing blackface is not?"

Agreed. It's why transactivists are so desperate to police the thinking on Mumsnet. Once women are able to speak freely without the shackles of trans speak, once women are allowed to explore the tactics used, identify and overcome the fear of the bigot / pearl clutcher / anti trans labels and understand how grim fetishists are taking over the public space to promote their self interested desires, that's when the truth emerges. And our instinct to keep the young safe kicks in.

I wonder what would make “oxfordfeminist” uncomfortable in a tutorial room. Probably a robust discussion on how Simone de Beauvoir, Germaine Greer and Andrea Dworkin wrote some texts that will stand the test of time, whereas Judith Butler will go down in history as a purveyor of word salad.

Sorry, was missing nuance.

Exactly. I mean, for all we know, "oxfordfeminist" could be Matt himself. It's the internet after all, anything is true if you lie.

I think that's one reason why so many of the people who see the reality of gender ideology, and how TRAs work, are mothers whose children are older. We've all watched the toddler stages. We've seen the tantrums and the magical thinking, and know that we are responsible for helping them regulate and grow up. And keeping them safe.

https://x.com/prof_curiosity1 / Read Some Piaget Please!
on X is good on child development and safeguarding with regard to GI.

In a normal world - or at least how it used to work - there would have been a quiet word had with this man by someone more senior in the college (which is pretty much everyone, given his standing) and that would have been it.

The other colleges and the university departments would probably have appreciated that, rather than having Oxford now linked all over with Enormous Fake Breasts man.

Given the capture of academia I'm not sure whether it's a given they'd make him less likely to get the job. Watching senior academics beclown themselves in the Jo Phoenix court case (which to any lurkers, she won and yet the OU don't seem to have held any of the staff behaving like witchfinders to account) was something that completely undermined my trust in higher education in this country.

Reminded me both of the cultural revolution where people would denounce their friends and family and 1984. Apparently Jo P was guilty of 'wrongthink' for knowing there are two sexes in humans and sometimes sex matters.

I'd simply like to ask him 'do you think your students feel comfortable with you wearing pornified fake breasts on display?'. I'd like him to answer that question.

I'd like to ask him if he will be wearing his giant comedy breasts when he interviews for his next academic post.

Yes, the childish language goes along with a toddler-like mentality. Who here has not been told by a toddler wanting to eat chocolate / ice-cream for every meal 'I hate you! You are a big meanie!'. When obviously it would be considered seriously neglectful to accede to their request. It's absolutely the same dynamic. It's disturbing alongside the fact that mental development in those children who use puberty blockers will be affected. It's almost as if there's a group of people who WANT the next generation kept in a perpetual childlike state.

If there were any professional adults at Oxford, it would have simply and quickly been dealt with by a senior member of staff.

'Hi Matt, Please leave the huge fake boobs at home, they're not appropriate attire in a workplace'. The end.

@Catiette really liked your paragraph “I'd not thought of it quite this way before, but there's so much of it - "be kind!" "this is this and that is that!" and, of course, the endless hyperbole about "hate" (which really is the language of the playground when applied so unthinkingly to women discussing their rights). There's a childishness to the thinking, too - it's so simplistic - right/wrong, black/white, good/evil etc.

You are correct. We are referred to as hateful gender critical woman, plus some men. What we actually are a concerned sex realists looking in aghast at a society that has collapsed in terms of a moral compass. Institutions, the Civil Service, education and most concerningly the NHS all completely captured into going along with a lie.

This has been a long road to trample over decent societal norms.

Ha! Cross posted with @Catiette
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