Biggus Titus of Oxford University

oh please try another less tired old cliche, we get this one way too often!

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Yet another thread mocking a trans person simply for existing.

Yes, quite. But can you also imagine the response if a woman wore huge fake breasts with plunging necklines to work ?! (And that would be arguably more appropriate, since women do have breasts naturally.) Does anyone honestly think that her colleagues and managers would be unconditionally accepting?

For one minute I was worried that Oxford had completely lost its marbles and given Katie Price a position. Panic over.

It is.

It's terrifying.

No idea but let’s hope there are some journalists reading this who can investigate properly on behalf of the female student scientists at Oxford and expose this for what it is.

Someone needs to take the first step so young women who feel uncomfortable with this man parading his paraphilias right in front of them feel encouraged to voice their discomfort. Kirsty Wark? Emma Barnett? Emily Maitlis?

You know, I read stuff like this and think, 1) men have so much audacity and 2) you really don't have to bring your whole self to work, leave that crap at home.

I think that what threads like this show is just how low some people’s boundaries must be for inappropriate behaviour such as this man’s choices to be defended.

It serves as a great reminder that those who will defend this man’s choices in a professional setting cannot recognise that inappropriate behaviour. Some times those people then also tell us they are in roles responsible for safeguarding too.

Either way, it is a good demonstration as to how poor safeguarding decisions are made when choices such as this man has made are defended.

I'm much more angry with Oxford university than with him. Perverts going to pervert if they're allowed - and Oxford university are allowing it. Why the hell are they letting him behave like this?

He loves wearing big boobs

People often love to do things that include sexual elements that others find distressing and uncomfortable. This is why they are discouraged in public places, and criminalised if overtly sexual, like flashing.

He shouldn’t be allowed to behave as he does.

I’d happily contribute to the cost.

Genuinely horrified by this.

Imagine being an 18 or 19 year old woman who’s passionate about her subject and who’s worked very hard to achieve the grades and to get through a tough interview to receive an offer to study Biochemistry at St Hilda’s. Imagine the horror of realising that this disrespectful mocking oaf is your tutor or lecturer. Imagine how crushing this would feel, and how uneasy and shaky and uncomfortable it’d make your early days and weeks of your undergraduate life.

If this is genuine then it’s the most graphic, shocking “fuck you and your aspirations and hopes and your hard work at school” to female scientists at Oxford. Shame on everyone who’s enabled it.

I'd walk out of his lectures and ask for my money back. Why should anyone have to partake in his evil perversions. How far we have all fallen if anyone puts up with this in university.

There's a lot of academics on here, maybe we could ask Gussie to make some giant glittery knitted phalluses for us and try the experiment ourselves. We could start "wear a willie to work" day!

I'll get my coat.

This too.

I am sorry for the ear worm, but if I am going to suffer it all day I don’t see why the rest of you should get away scot free.

Precisely. No woman would over-sexualise herself at work, she'd lay herself open to very obvious criticism - some of it sexist, some of it justified - and not be taken seriously. Women who have very generous breasts don't go out of their way to reveal them in a professional setting like this guy does.

Plus, speaking for myself - and PP says the same about her daughter upthread - I'd genuinely struggle to access lectures and seminars with this guy. I'd find it distressing and humiliating. Which, frankly, says it all. Inclusion of some will always mean exclusion of others ins some way and to some degree. I'm on the side of the teenaged females coming up to uni. and feeling silenced by an ideology that says their discomfort affecting their access to and enjoyment of their education is nothing relative to his discomfort were he forbidden from dressing as he wishes for the 8 hours a day spent at work.

What is it with men and their furtive little proclivities?

This ! Dd hasn’t come across him yet, he is based at a different college but he is in her field so she may do. Why should any woman have to go along with this ? It’s a total mockery of women as a sex. I have never seen a female academic at work dressed like this, it’s hardly appropriate work dress , even if he was female and had real breasts.
It’s deeply creepy and he must know that he makes students uncomfortable, and so one can only assume that he enjoys doing just that.

@Lady1576

Is he claiming to be a transwoman? Because if he is, he is seriously damaging trans credibility. If he's wearing giant, comedy breasts because it's a fetish then it's highly unprofessional and could offend many of his students. I believe there are times when the clothes you wear to work should be questioned. That's not bullying. And just for the record I was never remotely a mean girl or a bully. Quite the opposite.

I wouldn’t know or care if someone was wearing a buttplug at work.

If they were wearing a t-shirt that read "I a wearing a buttplug" would that be ok or problematic?