Matt Rattley

@Offherrockingchair these two paragraphs should give you a flavour. It's an absolutely brilliant article.

"Many men fantasise about big boobs. Among such unfortunates are a sub-group who have what is technically known as an autogynephilic desire to own a pair of such bazookas themselves, at least on special occasions. Earlier this year the American public got a good laugh out of the suggestion that the husband of the former Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem has a thing for huge fake breasts (not his wife’s, one should note). In private Mr Noem is said to find nothing more restful than to put on a pair and chat with other members of the ‘bimbofication’ fetish community.
Yet the key word there is ‘private’. Mr Noem did not seek to attend public events with his prosthetic rack on.

Personally I am not surprised Rattley should have got away with parading his pair at an Oxford college. That is because our places of higher learning have become the places on Earth least likely to have someone say: ‘Excuse me, but I think that might be a matter for the privacy of your own home.’ People like Rattley try their luck among the most tolerant people on Earth in the hope that tolerance will be endless. And in some places it is. But then the rest of the world discovers what is going on and starts to put its foot down. Not for the first time that will often happen when an unsuspecting teenager turns up for a university interview only to discover that their attention is being diverted by the plunging neckline of a balding ginger wizard. The student is effectively being dared to say ‘I find this strange’, get labelled a bigot, and then have various actresses called ‘Emma’ lead a demented public stampede against them."

No sane person would accuse Sex Matters of “provocation” by wearing swimming costumes for that photo, which says rather a lot about you.

I have given quite a few biochemistry lectures and lab classes in my life and I've not ever had a student who was visibly aroused. I might be a complete minger of course or maybe figuring out the finer details of enzyme kinetics takes up all the students' energy.

Of course it doesn't. I've been at lectures where cis men have been visibly aroused, and in secondary classes too. Every student found it hilarious, assuming he either didn't realise it was visible or was being pathetic (this was usually quite early in the morning.) Ditto cis female lecturers wearing black bras under white blouses and standing in front of a slide projector's light.

I had hoped we'd got past sexualising breasts and blaming their owners for other people's reactions to them.

Sex Matters were photographed yesterday wearing revealing swimming costumes in public, and no one thought they were being exhibitionists who were deliberately upsetting other people with their bodies.

While I detest everything those SM grifters stand for, I'll defend their choice to wear what they want in public to my last breath. No one should sexualise other people for their sartorial choices, or accuse them of provocation - that is rape myth. They weren't indecent, and neither is Rattley.

I’m social sciences myself but a few decades in and I still haven’t sexually aroused the lecture theatres full of students that I teach. Is it my failure to stand in front of bright lights in see through clothes and my insistence on looking like a normal woman? It’s baffling.

But for TPA, who clearly attends some very odd lectures - this man is wearing fetishistic gear in front of unconsenting 16+ year old girls. He might be getting a massive kick out of this but St Hilda’s need to have a word. They are responsible for the welfare of the young people this man is harassing.

TransParentlyObvious comments are textbook #LetThemSpeak

I wonder if anyone who is defending this actually knows any undergrads. I have an 18 year old who started university in September (a humanities subject) and it is such a challenging time for many of them, they really don't need to have to deal with this sort of shit as well. Why St Hilda's indulges him, I have no idea, they need to get a grip.

100% I'm totally behind academic freedom but it really shouldn't extend to freedom to harass. No first year student should be used by a man 10+ years older than them (and frankly looking 20+ years older than them) for fetishistic gratification and no employer should permit this. What on earth the Principal of St H's is doing not taking action over this I do not know. MR is about as low on the academic totem pole as it is possible to get yet they are still letting him get away with this.

Whatever happened to the cosmically cleavaged woodwork teacher in the US with similarly cowardly academic support?

Whatever happened to the cosmically cleavaged woodwork teacher in the US with similarly cowardly academic support?

Sorry for being flip.

He reverted to a bog standard male teacher and lost the costume.

I don't know, I seem to recall that the real ire against him stemmed from the fact that, when he went to the shops, he did so without his humungus breasts. These were clearly only required when teaching 14 year olds woodwork.

I had hoped we'd got past sexualising breasts and blaming their owners for other people's reactions to them.

Boggles the mind how you can look at a picture of this specimen and not grasp that's it's precisely him and his ilk doing the sexualising. Speaking as somebody who's been cursed with actual boobs nearly the size of the stage equipment paraded around by this man in order to demean and humiliate women.

Of course it doesn't. I've been at lectures where cis men have been visibly aroused, and in secondary classes too. Every student found it hilarious, assuming he either didn't realise it was visible or was being pathetic (this was usually quite early in the morning.) Ditto cis female lecturers wearing black bras under white blouses and standing in front of a slide projector's light.

I had hoped we'd got past sexualising breasts and blaming their owners for other people's reactions to them.

Sex Matters were photographed yesterday wearing revealing swimming costumes in public, and no one thought they were being exhibitionists who were deliberately upsetting other people with their bodies.

While I detest everything those SM grifters stand for, I'll defend their choice to wear what they want in public to my last breath. No one should sexualise other people for their sartorial choices, or accuse them of provocation - that is rape myth. They weren't indecent, and neither is Rattley.

Sex Matters were photographed yesterday wearing revealing swimming costumes in public, and no one thought they were being exhibitionists who were deliberately upsetting other people with their bodies.

What a bizarre comment. They were wearing swimsuits, in a protest about a swimming pool. Only someone with a serious anti-women phobia would find that upsetting.

‘Indecent exposure’ used to be a criminal offence. Today men are allowed to display their sex fetishes to young people, who have no choice but to accept it or miss their lectures.

One of the many reasons why we need organisations like Sex Matters.

Edited for typo.

Of course it doesn't. I've been at lectures where cis men have been visibly aroused, and in secondary classes too. Every student found it hilarious, assuming he either didn't realise it was visible or was being pathetic (this was usually quite early in the morning.) Ditto cis female lecturers wearing black bras under white blouses and standing in front of a slide projector's light.

I had hoped we'd got past sexualising breasts and blaming their owners for other people's reactions to them.

Sex Matters were photographed yesterday wearing revealing swimming costumes in public, and no one thought they were being exhibitionists who were deliberately upsetting other people with their bodies.

While I detest everything those SM grifters stand for, I'll defend their choice to wear what they want in public to my last breath. No one should sexualise other people for their sartorial choices, or accuse them of provocation - that is rape myth. They weren't indecent, and neither is Rattley.