Biggus Titus of Oxford University

Blokes at work used to feel comfortable with their topless calendars on show and groping wims in the office. Even they wouldn’t have turned up looking like Kenny Everett! Huge plastic tits are sexual harassment and anyone trying to say otherwise is a sandwich short of a picnic

You never get a reply to actual hard questions. Just never.

It is wearying beyond believe to have repeated accusations of you’re being mean, intolerant, let’s all just hug without any of their logic or reasoning explained. For once, I’d love if one of the women throwing accusations of assumptions and lack of nuance to actually say the words out loud.

That you agree that being a woman is about behaviour and appearance… that a man can be a woman if he behaves and presents in a certain way, and holds a belief that he 'is' a woman.

What about it @oxfordfeminist, will you confirm that is your view?

I'd be very interested in the answer and I basically re-asked the same question.

I've been that nervous new fresher from Asia, albeit many decades ago when everybody was less clever and agile-thinking.

Perhaps if my lecturer had stood in front of us as his comfortable true self with his eyes pulled into slits, skin painted yellow and speaking with a Flied Lice accent, I'd have been scolded to focus on the profound scholastic learning instead of being an un-nuanced exclusionary othering phobe?

God it’s so facile! ‘Feels comfortable’ wearing a pair of giant fake beasts to teach undergraduate girls.

No analysis, no thinking, a total abandonment of generations of academic interrogation of dress, pleasure, comfort, affect, communication, gender, power… this deliberate self-stupidification into the complacent pap of ‘he feels comfortable’ so that you don’t have to risk anyone thinking there’s a brain in your compliant female head.

@oxfordfeminist
The problem with othering entire groups of people is that you make a lot of assumptions, and miss a lot of nuance.
And Matt with the huge silicone tits isn't making women feel 'othered' by displaying his fetish in public?

Academics - and I have experience of them - love the word 'nuance', but sometimes things really are simple. This man is trolling women.

But apparently it's more important that he feels comfortable and expresses his true self than that the women around him feel that they're being treated with a modicum of respect.

Got it.

I didn't see your answer to this question @oxfordfeminist.

Nope, the fake tits change things. Men who are wearing dresses because why shouldn't men wear dresses don't feel the need to accessorize said dress with giant tits.

In fact, a rule of thumb, fake tits are usually a pretty strong indicator that a man has something weird going on in his ideas about women. Giant fake tits make it a dead cert.

I wonder what 'assumptions' The Righteous would make about a white tutor who quirkily, scholastically and comfortably expresses their diverse inner selves like this to a class of freshers from Asia.

Methinks there might be a bit less indulgent inclusivity and a tad more othering...

Just as people are jumping to conclusions of what they think M. Rattley might be like.

Any man who dresses like that in the workplace is either mentally unwell or he enjoys harassing women.

I can't think of any other possible reasons. Can you?

There is no strand of feminism which incorporates the sexism inherent in trans ideology.

Could you expand on what you mean by assumptions and nuance?

The way I see it, the whole concept of transgenderism is sexist and anti-feminist.

Trans ideology says that being a woman is about behaviour and appearance. It says that a man can be a woman if he behaves and presents in a certain way, and holds a (false) belief that he somehow 'is' a woman. It says that certain behaviours are only for women, or only for men, which is sexist and anti-feminist.

I've already agreed with you that I'm silly. As you say, you're definitely not silly, yet simultaneously you don't see yourself as intellectually superior.

To feel “comfortable” he needs to wear enormous silicone tits and expose his fake cleavage to everyone.

Do you not think that this might just be a sex thing? I would politely suggest that he is either aroused by this (in the manner of Grayson Perry), or he really enjoys making people round him uncomfortable whilst defying them to pass comment, or both.

He is a walking red flag who is seeing what boundaries he can push.

Just how gullible are you?

For the record, tutors at Oxford are a diverse bunch. Not everyone here would agree with my point of view either.

Take for instance Selina Todd, who is a brilliant historian, but whom I differ with on trans issues.

The problem with othering entire groups of people is that you make a lot of assumptions, and miss a lot of nuance.

With all due respect, it's your parody that sounds silly. Nowhere have I claimed to be more clever than anyone else on this thread. You don't have the slightest idea of my background or what kind of person I am. You're just resorting to stereotypes or myths of what you think people at Oxford might be like.

Just as people are jumping to conclusions of what they think M. Rattley might be like.

Just because people disagree with you doesn't mean they are pretentious or see themselves as intellectually superior.

I disagree with trans-exclusionary feminism. I'm sorry you seem to find that so threatening. There are many different strands of feminism in the world.

Now now you silly ladies, you should be educated by your intellectualistical superioriorioriors about the sophistimaculated profoundical agilityfied hyperflexible cogitationing and super-kewwwwl inclusitivisic progressival diversificacious embraciating that proper Oxfordibrigian BeKind Righteous Folx can demonstrate... but only to particular groups of people.

I wonder how those particular groups of people are selected... oh, that must be part of the intellectualistical superioriorioriors sophistimaculated profoundical agilityfied hyperflexible cogitationing and super-kewwwwl inclusitivisic progressival diversificacious embraciating of proper Oxfordibrigian BeKind Righteous Folx.

And if one of your white students turned up to a revision session wearing blackface, would you and Oxford be proudly tolerant of that?

I never use gender for pronouns, I use the correct English, which is sex-based. No-one agreed to have their language mangled. I don't consent to it. Nor does anyone outside of an echo chamber.

Also better for safeguarding as in 'Your daughter will be sharing a tent with him' having a totally different meaning in safeguarding terms to 'your daughter will be sharing a tent with her'. Because sex matters for safeguarding what with men committing 98% of all sex crimes and in fact men who seek access to young women or girls by deception and sleight of language probably are an even greater risk.

It's absolutely grim what this man is doing. And all the students are silenced. There's no way that girls, women or men from many different cultures and religions that will be present at Oxford are ok with this. Apparently it's all 'inclusion' except for all the people they're excluding with this anti-social and inappropriate behaviour.

If he thought it was ok he wouldn't have deleted Tanya de Grunwald's very reasonable question. He knows it's not, presumably that's part of the thrill.

Would he wear the same get up if he were tutoring a group of only male students?

Are we at cross purposes? I was agreeing with you. I think your sister was right, as are we all who have our doubts or unease about those who tell us, no matter how subtly or otherwise, who they are or who they might be, given the chance, which can be so easily engineered when we are 'taught' to ignore those instincts.

What nonsense. You need to recalibrate. Disagreeing with what someone does is not hate speech. You are on a forum with women who had to put up with men telling them to get out of the workplace/no point educating or training women as they just get pregnant/ignoring topless calendars on the (professional) office wall! You and Matt need to toughen up - Newsflash - things aren't always just naice and how you would like them and some people won't like you/yourviews/youractions. Get over yourself

Is this a male student who enjoys crossdressing or a female student who likes to pretend she's a man by "using" he/him pronouns, but looks just like any other woman?

"If" is the giveaway there. If you do this, then I'd want to see evidence.

Sorry, what's your subject again? Classics, wasn't it?

How do you know he dresses "as a woman"? How do you know he isn't challenging the gender stereotypes of clothing by showing that "man's" clothes are whatever the man in question wants to wear?

I agree with this point. I think my student is just wearing what he feels comfortable in. Matt R is doing the same.

I teach at Oxford but in a different subject. I'm not sure where I teach makes any difference though.