Biggus Titus of Oxford University

Oxford Uni staff are required to complete sexual harassment training every year. Can you find a university or college regulation that is being violated here by what you choose to perceive as a 'fetish'?

Exactly. The point of this definition is that for the behaviour to constitute harassment, the victim would need to have actually interacted with the person in question. Not just taken a dislike to them on the basis of stuff they've read about them on the internet.

I'm off to do some marking now. Curiously enough, the marks will have nothing to do with the way the students who submitted the work choose to dress during my tutorials.

Exactly. The point of this definition is that for the behaviour to constitute harassment, the victim would need to have actually interacted with the person in question. Not just taken a dislike to them on the basis of stuff they've read about them on the internet.

I'm off to do some marking now. Curiously enough, the marks will have nothing to do with the way the students who submitted the work choose to dress during my tutorials.

'7. A person subjects another to harassment by engaging in unwanted and unwarranted conduct which has the purpose or effect of:

• violating another person’s dignity, or
• creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for another person.'

https://edu.admin.ox.ac.uk/university-policy-on-harassment#collapse1072106

Women should start wearing MASSIVE erect fake penises to work, the outline clearly visible through their trousers.

With all due respect, this thread sounds a lot like a witch hunt.

Matt Rattley isn't doing anything wrong. To compare them to a tutor like Simon Goldhill, who has been in the media recently for actually harassing his students, is ridiculous. I can't see how anything Rattley has done violates university or college regulations in any way.

I googled their name and a student pops up on an Oxford Uni reddit thread saying what a helpful tutor they are, and recommending them to another student. Their videos also seem to indicate that they are strongly committed to good pedagogical practice.

Incidentally, as a non-stipendiary lecturer, their contract will be solely with the college where they are teaching, not with the university. Non-stipendiary lecturers are notoriously poorly paid (the pay is by the hour, and it's low given the preparation and effort required).

Those of us who teach at Oxford focus on the quality of people's academic scholarship, not on how they choose to dress or which pronouns they prefer to use. Maybe that is too traditional or disinterested an approach for some people who have a political axe to grind, but that's how we do it. Teaching and research come first.

I don't know Matt, but if I ever run into them in a college SCR, I'll be happy to chat with them over coffee as I would any other colleague, regardless of what they happen to wear on the day.

Casting academic tutors as sexual predators on the basis of zero evidence is pretty despicable if you ask me.

With all due respect, this thread sounds a lot like a witch hunt.

Matt Rattley isn't doing anything wrong. To compare them to a tutor like Simon Goldhill, who has been in the media recently for actually harassing his students, is ridiculous. I can't see how anything Rattley has done violates university or college regulations in any way.

I googled their name and a student pops up on an Oxford Uni reddit thread saying what a helpful tutor they are, and recommending them to another student. Their videos also seem to indicate that they are strongly committed to good pedagogical practice.

Incidentally, as a non-stipendiary lecturer, their contract will be solely with the college where they are teaching, not with the university. Non-stipendiary lecturers are notoriously poorly paid (the pay is by the hour, and it's low given the preparation and effort required).

Those of us who teach at Oxford focus on the quality of people's academic scholarship, not on how they choose to dress or which pronouns they prefer to use. Maybe that is too traditional or disinterested an approach for some people who have a political axe to grind, but that's how we do it. Teaching and research come first.

I don't know Matt, but if I ever run into them in a college SCR, I'll be happy to chat with them over coffee as I would any other colleague, regardless of what they happen to wear on the day.

Casting academic tutors as sexual predators on the basis of zero evidence is pretty despicable if you ask me.

Oxford Uni staff are required to complete sexual harassment training every year. Can you find a university or college regulation that is being violated here by what you choose to perceive as a 'fetish'?

Repeating the term 'fetish' is not evidence of argument or critical thinking.

There is a large piece of evidence that this man is parading a fetish in public strapped to his chest.

With all due respect, this thread sounds a lot like a witch hunt.

Matt Rattley isn't doing anything wrong. To compare them to a tutor like Simon Goldhill, who has been in the media recently for actually harassing his students, is ridiculous. I can't see how anything Rattley has done violates university or college regulations in any way.

I googled their name and a student pops up on an Oxford Uni reddit thread saying what a helpful tutor they are, and recommending them to another student. Their videos also seem to indicate that they are strongly committed to good pedagogical practice.

Incidentally, as a non-stipendiary lecturer, their contract will be solely with the college where they are teaching, not with the university. Non-stipendiary lecturers are notoriously poorly paid (the pay is by the hour, and it's low given the preparation and effort required).

Those of us who teach at Oxford focus on the quality of people's academic scholarship, not on how they choose to dress or which pronouns they prefer to use. Maybe that is too traditional or disinterested an approach for some people who have a political axe to grind, but that's how we do it. Teaching and research come first.

I don't know Matt, but if I ever run into them in a college SCR, I'll be happy to chat with them over coffee as I would any other colleague, regardless of what they happen to wear on the day.

Casting academic tutors as sexual predators on the basis of zero evidence is pretty despicable if you ask me.

With all due respect, this thread sounds a lot like a witch hunt.

Matt Rattley isn't doing anything wrong. To compare them to a tutor like Simon Goldhill, who has been in the media recently for actually harassing his students, is ridiculous. I can't see how anything Rattley has done violates university or college regulations in any way.

I googled their name and a student pops up on an Oxford Uni reddit thread saying what a helpful tutor they are, and recommending them to another student. Their videos also seem to indicate that they are strongly committed to good pedagogical practice.

Incidentally, as a non-stipendiary lecturer, their contract will be solely with the college where they are teaching, not with the university. Non-stipendiary lecturers are notoriously poorly paid (the pay is by the hour, and it's low given the preparation and effort required).

Those of us who teach at Oxford focus on the quality of people's academic scholarship, not on how they choose to dress or which pronouns they prefer to use. Maybe that is too traditional or disinterested an approach for some people who have a political axe to grind, but that's how we do it. Teaching and research come first.

I don't know Matt, but if I ever run into them in a college SCR, I'll be happy to chat with them over coffee as I would any other colleague, regardless of what they happen to wear on the day.

Casting academic tutors as sexual predators on the basis of zero evidence is pretty despicable if you ask me.

With all due respect, this thread sounds a lot like a witch hunt.

Matt Rattley isn't doing anything wrong. To compare them to a tutor like Simon Goldhill, who has been in the media recently for actually harassing his students, is ridiculous. I can't see how anything Rattley has done violates university or college regulations in any way.

I googled their name and a student pops up on an Oxford Uni reddit thread saying what a helpful tutor they are, and recommending them to another student. Their videos also seem to indicate that they are strongly committed to good pedagogical practice.

Incidentally, as a non-stipendiary lecturer, their contract will be solely with the college where they are teaching, not with the university. Non-stipendiary lecturers are notoriously poorly paid (the pay is by the hour, and it's low given the preparation and effort required).

Those of us who teach at Oxford focus on the quality of people's academic scholarship, not on how they choose to dress or which pronouns they prefer to use. Maybe that is too traditional or disinterested an approach for some people who have a political axe to grind, but that's how we do it. Teaching and research come first.

I don't know Matt, but if I ever run into them in a college SCR, I'll be happy to chat with them over coffee as I would any other colleague, regardless of what they happen to wear on the day.

Casting academic tutors as sexual predators on the basis of zero evidence is pretty despicable if you ask me.