Biggus Titus of Oxford University

[Forecastsayssnowbutthereisnosnow]

Sadly, not a Monty Python sketch.

Matt Rattley, a large bearded bloke who wears giant fake breasts, appears to be happily working at Oxford Uni.

I was really hoping this wasn't true but there is even a youtube video with him talking while wearing the giant breasts and red lipstick, applied to a degree any circus clown would be accused of overdoing it. The video includes a slide stating he works as a lecturer and tutor in the Biochemistry Dept at Oxford. He's also on LinkedIn.

I mean, how obvious can it be that this is a sexual fetish which he is involving unconsenting students and staff in???

Dr P on X has been (correctly) very robust on this case:

""This is Matt Rattley saying, "I can do whatever I please and nobody can stop me".

This is highly antisocial, abnormal, boundary-violating, paraphilic behaviour.

And we should not be afraid to say so."

That rigid, binary thinking is a real feature of the ideology, I think. You see it here all the time in this ridiculous good/bad, kind/bigotted, all/nothing polemical thinking, and the sheer hyperbole. At best, I think it reflects that naive it's-just-like-gay-rights thinking. At its worst... emotive attack is really the only way to defend a fairly reductive way of thinking that just doesn't stand up to more nuanced scrutiny.

Sorry @Igmum it was a joke. No knitted dildoes round here, suffragette colours or plain, not even a sparkly sock and a couple of pompons.

But there are some quite interesting freedom of expression questions here.

Thank you Amaryllis, my mind boggles at how my undergraduates would have reacted... (not to mention the Faculty's Advisory Board who I'm seeing afterwards 😳)

Well women do do that sometimes. But I agree it‘s not a good thing to do and I agree with your point. I mean we don‘t like to hear that men are being made uncomfortable by how girls dress in school for example, but I do think some dress is not work appropriate, and I would definitely say his dress is not work appropriate.

To people not well-versed in this discourse, it does seem like some feminists are against transwomen. That doesn’t make me a man or a supporter of this man! Or his mum! But I see the issue is not with transwomen but with men who enjoy overstepping boundaries around sexuality and gender in ways that are sneaky and take advantage of woke ‚do-gooders (really hate that insult). posters here have suggested some helpful areas for me to inform myself better. Thank you for that. You‘ve definitely given me a lot to think about. Definitely why is he doing this is a simple but very good question!! So yes, I think I was being quite naive. I still think a few of you are not very nice though…

that’s been the problem for years though: women being nice, feeling forced to be nice, to be kind, to be affirming and validating. It’s why we’ve got to this place where entitled blokes wear big fake tits in public and women don’t bat an eyelid because they’ve been conditioned to be compliant. Fuck being kind.

Agreed. The key thing is context. It's inappropriate to wear certain clothes in work, whether you're male or female. Where that line is drawn will depend wholly on context e.g. if you work in a beach bar, wear a bikini. If you work in an office, don't.

Anyone who can't navigate the social contract (male or female) based on context deserves pulling up on it. Even my daughters have noticed how totally inappropriate some of the (young female) teachers' clothes are at their school. I don't think either of them knows where the line "should" be in the context of teachers in a school, but they both seem to agree on the examples that cross it.

Unfortunately it sounds like this lecturer is wearing these kind of clothes on the days when young children are present too. IIRC there was a PP who said they saw him on an inset day and other children were also at the event. He would presumably have been told that children were coming in that day.... yet still deemed the outfit appropriate. An odd decision.

You mean organise a campaign of harassment against a trans person.

when someone tells you who they are, listen.

😂
We're listening - and watching - and drawing some very accurate conclusions about what is happening here.

Surprised to see someone actively in favour of this man's behaviour. But thank you - it's quite the education to see in real life the lack of boundaries and unthinking support for the socially unacceptable.

To be fair lady1576, this was "not a very nice" post either. Maybe people have responded to you in the tone of this very first post of yours on this thread.

No you haven't been naïve, you been manipulative, you've tried to normalise abnormal behaviours, there's only ever one reason to do that.

Your faux contrition is just more manipulation, it's an attempt to deflect blame on to anybody who's called you out on your bullshit.
I don't mind one little bit that you think I'm 'not very nice'.

They're the ones that call themselves transwomen. We just call them men. Try mentally inserting the word 'man' everytime you see the word 'transwoman' and you will soon get the gist of what is going on here.

I'm definitely not 'nice' to fetishists or misogynists or homophobes. I hope you aren't either.

Ah we're on to there are transwomen who are nice and transwomen who are dangerous/inappropriate/abusive/exhibitionist and fetishist.

Yes. Obviously. And they don't come with little t shirts on explaining, and no women should be expected to have to put up with one and work out through discovering whether or not she gets assaulted as to which group this one belongs to.

Not to mention, a man can make women extremely uncomfortable and harassed without actually managing to break the law or invoke consequences - this guy is demonstrating it in action - and some women are excluded from women's spaces the moment any man walks in, even if he's delightful.

So I'm against any men, at all, in any single sex women's spaces, jobs or roles or services, and that's absolutely equal opportunities: it's regardless of what that man's inner life or star sign or sexuality or creed is or anything else. Just all men. They have no place in women's spaces, they have no business excluding women, it stops 100% of the male harassment and assault of women in women's single sex spaces, and there's no way to tell the nice from the extremely grotty.

The ones like this one, who are trying to get away with highly inappropriate sexual behaviours in public by using the word 'trans' - which you should note really, it's men like him trying to say that 'sexually inappropriate' is a part of being trans as opposed to just grotty male behaviour, it does NOT help the public view of men with trans identities who have decent behaviours and standards - are enabled by those wittering on about NAMALT and their views on nasty meanie women who won't put up with grotty male behaviour without complaining about it.

And frankly I have absolutely no interest at all in whether you think I'm 'nice' by your standards, my interest is in women having equality of access to public life, to not being use by men to gratify their inner selves and other parts of their anatomy, and not having experiences like that poor one just sexually assaulted in a women's prison by a man who was provided with access to her as his victim by people being sentimentally, unthinkingly, zealously 'nice'.

Has he told you he’s a transwoman?

Do you think women here would be fine with his behaviour if he was not trans?

Do you think any man should be able to crack on with this behaviour in peace? What about the charging of the chap that's just raped a woman prisoner in a women's prison, is that 'harassment of a trans person' or because sexual assault isn't ok?

Unless you're arguing that inappropriate and sexualised exhibitionism is an intrinsic part of being trans and should be expected as normal?

In which case serious questions need to be asked about employment, safeguarding and trans identified men, don't they?

OMG thank you @Forecastsayssnowbutthereisnosnow!

I do not know this individual but have many LinkedIn contacts who do. As such, his material creeps into my LinkedIn feed where I find it utterly disarming. Yes I could hide it etc etc, but then I wouldn’t be able to keep a watching brief on what my (almost entirely male) friends and colleagues are actually saying in support of this behaviour.

I do not understand how anyone can view this as anything other than gratuitous and/or fetish-driven behaviour. Clearly it’s performative and a challenge to how people, especially women, respond. Are we going to make a fuss? Are we going to accept him as a female presence?

I personally feel very threatened by the behaviour of this individual and utterly powerless to say anything at all.

And before people come for me - it’s not because this is a transgender individual, it’s the provocative nature of the giant breasts and cleavage, which appear to be perpetually on show, the attire that almost no woman would ever wear in a professional environment precisely because it would either attract unwanted attention, be perceived negatively, or make men take her less seriously. It’s so in your face. And it’s designed to make people so uncomfortable they wouldn’t dare make a fuss. This is not someone just quietly going about an innermost identity. It’s a performance in which we are all unconsenting participants in someone’s fetish.

Indeed.

It always surprises me how so many people don't understand the connection between obvious boundary-flouting like this and setting the conditions for sexual abuse. Or what someone like this man (and his duper's delight smirk) is doing when he flouts social boundaries to push his fetish and other people let him get away with it. They are enablers. He is aroused by it. It is fetishistic, abusive behaviour. A massive red flag. This man should not be in a position of responsibility with young people.

Some people (esp middle class, sheltered, academic types) are SO bloody naive. It's enraging. Especially when they join in the demonisation of women far savvier than themselves who try to point out the bleedin' obvious.

He's not "transgender", however he may identify, because it isn't really a thing. Rather, he's a fat bearded man with a sexual fetish who is inappropriately pushing sexual boundaries in the workplace and acting in a manner that would normally raise red flags. And people are letting him because of that special "identity", which has him treated as a member of a sacred untouchable caste. Which he knows.

And you have every right to feel uncomfortable.It shows your instincts are working correctly. Unfortunately, it seems you're surrounded by enablers.

He wants they/them pronouns to be used, so he is somewhere under the trans umbrella.

My main question (yes, I know, my name is a giveaway) is whether this person is a good teacher or not, and whichever he is, whether his students find his foam rubber appendages enhance or interfere with his teaching.

My bet is that they interfere by being utterly irrelevant to the subject he is employed to teach, but at the same time so in-yer-face it is impossible to ignore them and get on with the work.

What I do know is that someone like this when I was at university would almost certainly have been referred to by all and sundry (including the cross-dressing people I knew) among the students, whether he taught them or not, as The Freak.

Oxford needs a version of these determined women:

https://cusocietyofwomen.com/

Thanks for posting this.

Without exposing who you are IRL / LinedIn can you repeat some of what other men are saying.

Or even what he has said.

It doesn't seem to be a "trans" position but more as other have suggested some sort of fetish behaviour which the public backing of the trans agenda means establishments, employers feel they cant challenge.

Again as others suggested if a woman came to work wearing really tight trousers that showed some sort of inflated penis, would that be allowed. I doubt it.

Have always thought and said that the power of the TRAs is the fact that is built on the well entrenched power of the MRAs.

And now this just seems to a MRA showing that men are right to feel entitled. Because nobody challenges them.

I don’t think I can go and look without revealing myself, but if I recall it tends to be the usual ‘stunning and brave’ type things. I am not connected to this individual, it’s a crossing over of wider circles, but for me it’s about who is saying what, not so much what is being said. Gives me a good idea of who I need to be very careful around.