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."

You are unbelievable. A man dressed in giant fake tits is abusive. Where are your boundaries? Can all men trample on them or only when they identify as 'queer'.

‘No evidence’.

Well there’s couple of things about this guy I’ve noticed.

Also, I'm sorry you had an uncomfortable time as a student of Simon Goldhill. He abused his power as a tutor exactly as big tits guy is abusing his power as a tutor. I'm interested. Have you internalised your distress at the - shall we call it harassment - you endured and thought it was normal? Or thought that if you had to deal with it other students should be able to deal with it too? Have you blamed yourself? So if they are experiencing discomfort with the situation they must be to blame too? Or did no-one step in to protect you, so you won't step in to protect students today who are experiencing harassment? Are you worried about being accused of being a terf if you object? Worried that calling out 'queer' folk will label you transphobic. Because your reaction to this situation is utterly bizarre.

it's disgusting......no student should be faced with that. Deeply concerning though what internet porn has done to mens minds-how many seemingly 'normal' looking males are deviant perverts?

I'm appalled we are at the stage that a man can wear a pair of fake breasts to work and someone claims this is not evidence of his abuse.

A paraphilia often involves the non consensual participation of others - exhibitionism is a neighbour of indecent exposure.

This is not okay.

So having Simon Goldhill (disgraced pervy Classics academic Oxon) slobber over them was uncomfortable for the alleged academic upthread. Luckily, someone else had the guts to speak up, and he was sacked.

But a man wearing huge fetish fake breasts wobbling in your face in your seminar is to be accepted. Nothing offensive about that apparently, no student has dared complain, he's living his true self.

St. Hilda's prospective students take note.

Is this man 'trans' or 'queer'? What leads you to make this assertion?

Is AGP automatically evidence of one or the other? I didn't know.

(For what it is worth, I genuinely think that unless it falls within her narrow parameters and experience, oxfordfeminist has absolutely no idea what abuse of power looks like.)

Genuinely amazes me how utterly unaware some people are about gaslighting dynamics like this and how it feeds into abuse scenarios. Giving untouchability/sacred caste status, boundary-flouting with others' discomfort to see how well it holds, first gradually and then to more extremity is a key red flag. It's all boiling frog stuff to see what you'll let them get away with and normalise and enable him in. Seems like he already is. Which you can tell by the duper's delight smile. Wilful blindness to the thrill he's getting. Nobody cares about the students. I expect they're all expected to swallow any discomfort and "reframe it" to fawn over him too.

• Sexually inappropriate clothing in the workplace - red flag, no boundary,nothing is said (I bet there would be if a female tutor wore such low-cut tops, and most wouldn't.)
• Fake prosthetic breasts very obviously worn by man in the workplace - "ah, no it's all fine, just self expression", again, red flag, no boundaries set, "ugh those horrible people commenting, what bigots". Big grin, look what I'm getting away with...

What's next, I wonder. The whole "I'm being victimised" DARVO shite I expect.

"Sigh" indeed.

"Sigh" says an Oxford Feminist, fuck me it must be something to live up where the air is rarified.

To not even be able to imagine how fucking grotesque and alarming this might be for other women.

Matt sitting in his parody tits, using students as wank fodder. "SIGH"

@oxfordfeminist Teaching and research come first.

No, safeguarding students comes first. Expecting them to complain, in the coercive culture that Queer studies has created at universities, is naive at best. Even if this man is entirely innocent of anything other than ignorance, there will be a thousand fetishists and predators watching and noting exactly what they can get away with. Queer people are removing boundaries without considering or without caring about the danger of what they are doing. This batshittery is affecting working class and poor and vulnerable women way more than the academics pushing it.

You can be part of the problem in academia, or part of the solution. There is no sitting on the fence with this ideology.

I've been struggling with how to put this, and I'm going to offend someone whoever way I do, but at least there was a level of honesty to Simon Goldhill's appalling behaviour, and I say that as an ex student of his, whereas with this man, it feels worse somehow.

I will try to articulate it more later, if I can get my head around it.

It's not.

But obviously no one actually in such a position of responsibility would be arguing about this on a public forum with identifiable information. I shall now return to running prep in the HoC, after which I have all the cabinet's homework to mark.

@oxfordfeminist <sigh> indeed. How do you think that St Hildas would react to someone complaining that they felt harassed by this man?
I think it would go something like this

I think it's about understanding that it's about covert behaviour like this as well as overt behaviour like Simon Goldhill's. Both are as bad as each other and involve manipulation of others and power for sexual purposes.

Covert, however, tends to be enabled more than others.

Just seen this.

Good to know you would take it seriously if a student said they felt uncomfortable.

Presumably though, most females who feel uncomfortable at being in the presence of large rubber boobs on show from a tutor will assume that they had better keep quiet or they'll get in trouble. The fact that it's a staff member creates an impression that it's all approved by the university, so it'd be foolish to question it.

And getting to punish women for saying no is a key part of the attraction for AGP fetishists. It's absolutely a misogynist power game.

I get what you mean. He was a letch of the old school. Then these types started ( eventually) to get sacked.
So they had to reinvent themselves. What a gift Queerness has been.

It's not a competition but queer theory has opened up a whole new set of ways for misogynistic porn-addled men to abuse women. And for other raging misogynists - including female transmaidens - to feel virtuous in their rampant woman-hatred.

And when I say "covert" I suppose... well, giant fake boobs aren't very covert are they, but it's the dynamics involved, the blind eyes, the control of people's reactions so they are not clearly seeing to what is actually glaringly obviously there. The hiding in plain sight tactic. "Little old me?" (clutches fake enormous heaving cleavage in mock-horror). "But however COULD you think such a thing?"

It's a game. They have made a game out of abuse and they are thoroughly enjoying themselves. How those men must snigger at the naive 'feminists' enabling this.

Queer theory has so engulfed thinking, so gaslit a couple of generations of women into second guessing themselves, having some kind of fucked up internal struggle session - "is he off or am I just a straight-laced repressed bigot?"

Everyday sleazy lecturers of yore, women weren't in a constant battle against instinct @murasaki I get exactly where you're coming from!

You're a gullible enabler, basically, displaying precisely the kind of woolly-minded handwavery that abusers, fetishists and others who seek to push others' personal boundaries deiberately seek out. It's not very intelligent behaviour at all. So I'd drop the faux intellectual snobbery if I were you. Your lack of awareness is embarrassingly naïve, not a sign of intellectual superiority.

I just thought I'd repost this as it needs saying over and over. (sorry I didn't copy the posters handle)

I'm wondering if the OxfordFeminist was a Lady in another post, they both posted the same sort of drivel, and the OF is a good example of the many (but not all) dim witted scholars that academia can boast of now, no wonder the uni's are churning out so many zombies for the cause.

The smirk on his face is known as duper's delight. A lopsided smile is also indicative of contempt.