Biggus Titus of Oxford University

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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."

There really is nothing, nothing these narcissistic fuckers won't whine about and try and get us 'paying for'.

The fawning handmaidens and yes men may think they're getting it right, keeping themselves safe, but they'll find out, when the wind blows the wrong way or something, that they'll eventually end up offending billy big tits or whoever they're supportive of then they'll see what he really thinks of them.

Except many of these men have a humiliation fetish too.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

But it's all done in the best POSSIBLE taste

I think doing this fits the definition of caricature astonishingly neatly, overall

Merriam Webster

exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics

Cambridge

the art of making) a drawing or written or spoken description of someone that usually makes them look silly by making part of their appearance or character more noticeable than it really is

Collins

If you caricature someone, you draw or describe them in an exaggerated way in order to be humorous or critical.

(NB. Transwomen would argue they're taking the critical approach - a critique and subversion of gender norms).

Dictionary.com

a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things.

any imitation or copy so distorted or inferior as to be ludicrous.

Note @PrizedPickledPopcorn,'s words, a few posts after your own: "He’s just wearing exhibitionist comedy boobs to work. That shouldn’t be receiving support from management. Hen night, stag night, panto, fancy dress costumes aren’t suitable for work."

"He’s just wearing exhibitionist comedy boobs to work. That shouldn’t be receiving support from management. Hen night, stag night, panto, fancy dress costumes aren’t suitable for work."

That.

I've been torn all day on two thoughts on this. One is BlackAdder looking at his comedy boys' night booze up breasts and going 'oh my earmuffs have fallen down' to try and socially spin it out,

and the other is Shame and the useful role it plays in society.

I keep ruminating on the role that religion/religious sensibilities/religious cohesion played in keeping this sort of thing out of the workplace in the past.

And in that vein, I wonder whether Oxford worries about him performing womanface in front of overtly religious students, Muslim being the obvious example, particularly female ones. Is Queer theory going to try to queer Islam too?

Have the university commented? There have to be students who didn’t feel comfortable going along with this. Surely?

We must be at a point where a proper debate happens where anyone with a concerns about the whole gender identity discussion is not just shut down. I am equally concerned that we are sleep walking because of the ‘be kind’ mantra that a generation of vulnerable girls, mainly autistic, have been used as a social experiment and now identify out of woman hood. Goodness what a mess.

This lecturer is supposed to be preparing young people for the workplace- or am I misguided on that?

I imagine the powers that be at Oxford haven't quite arrived at the logical endpoint of all this "bring your whole self to work" thing yet, which is what to do when they get sued by a very rich Omani parent who finds out that this is the kind of thing their daughter has been subjected to all term. I used to work at an international school and the Omani girls practically had body guards (female) around them 24/7. Their parents took no shit.

Is Queer theory going to try to queer Islam too?
Yes they are, which is when it will finally be ripped apart, and I mean literally ripped limb from limb, the intersectionality in the Green Party is how the loony tunes think it's going to go, but they're in for a rude awaking. They won't be 'woke' for long though, it's going to get bloody.

Oxford are chasing the Chinses Renminbi/Yuan not the petro doller, so they may not care about offending Muslims.

On the contrary, he says his pronouns are they/them. Suggesting he identifies as non binary not as a transwoman.

Yes, a 1500 year old world religion with 4 million adherents in the UK vs The batshit coalition of Greens, Queer theorists and men with fetishes.

If I were a betting woman.....

That is going to put Reform in a bit of a quandary if it happens, isn't it? On the one hand I suspect they are opposed to trans-anything and gender-woo; on the other I am fairly sure they are opposed to Muslims. Which side will they hate more?

Much of it seems so .... Trumpy.

Causing offence and outrage to demonstrate power.

Where does it put feminism? Fighting on all fronts?

My god, he’s wearing a HEA name badge. Sometimes I really hate how teaching and learning pedagogy helps advance fetishisation.

I suspect the Green Party is full of useful idiots atm but when push comes to shove they’ll find Islam actually isn’t open to being queered and the blue hairs will find themselves in a quandary.

Feminism has always been fighting on all fronts.

"Feminists have LONG pointed out that right and left have developed their own, differing routes to exploiting women. To suggest feminists who call out left wing bullshit are therefore in support of right wing bullshit is to vastly underestimate how much bullshit there is." Victoria Smith.

Whenever faith or cultural needs clash with the demands of the transactivist lobby you get the same response you get from them when there are inconvenient boundaries presented by child safeguarding, women and girls' equality, gay rights, etc etc. Which is flat rage, insults and threats.

So far they have not encountered a group prepared to be as nasty as they are.

I did my first degree at St Hilda’s. I had intended to leave them quite a lot of money. I will write and tell them that they have changed out of all recognition, and I have changed my mind.

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.

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

Matt thanks you for your service in validating and indeed supporting his exhibiting his sexual fetish at work

And he is quite clearly doing something wrong.

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'?