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."

Spot on! As only emotionally intelligent people will understand.

If a male person was wearing a tail to work, would that be acceptable work place attire?

Again, what part of a male person wearing prosthetic large breasts to work is appropriate when it is known and admitted by a group of other male people that this is fetishistic behaviour. Are we not supposed to listen to the people who have admitted this behaviour and learn from them?

No you're on the side of history that thinks women are nasty meanies for wanting single sex spaces and for not to have men parade their pervy fantasies at them at their place of work

or you're his mum

What about one of those Rasta hats with dreadlocks attached? Would that be ok? In fact lets add ‘would that be ok in a college originally set up for the teaching of people of colour that has a significantly sized cohort of Black students’?

ETA or might that be thought of as a little ‘off’

Has he made an internet thread about you asking lots of people to point, laugh and be disgusted by him?

@Lady1576 why do you think he goes out wearing the fake breasts and lipstick? That's a genuine question, I'm not trying to trip you up.

Hmm. I was recently at The Story Museum in Oxford with my son, on an inset day. (The Story Museum is a delightful place, aimed firmly at children, with lots of interactive exhibits and immersive rooms where you can literally walk into well-known stories, and wins plaudits for literacy promotion and community engagement. It has a little theatre and education rooms for school visits. It's also woke as hell - it's OXFORD, after all! - and their theatre certainly used to host a DragTime Story Hour type of thing for kids, as well as burlesque and 'queer' events in the evenings, firmly aimed at adults.)

We were moving at some speed (son was a bit hyper) but kept passing by the open double doors into a suite of rooms that I think is usually used for education or workshops (ie it's not part of the main museum) and there was obviously an event going on. Lots of adults with lanyards on, bowls of sweets for refreshments (odd, they were adults...) and some craft materials. Honestly I have no idea what the workshop was about, maybe workplace bonding or something?? None of my business, and museums very often hire out their space to host workshops, seminars, awaydays etc.

Anyway, what literally stopped me in my tracks was a large bloke, very heavily bearded, nice red lippy, and massive boobs. He was wearing a scoop-neck black top so you could see Grand Canyon-scale cleavage, but his beard was so large you couldn't actually see if the fake boobs had a join-line at his collar bone or whatever, as his beard hid it. I can't remember much more than the huge beard and the huge boobs but I'm 90% certain it was this guy, now I've seen that post!

My husband noticed too (you would be hard pressed not to) and we both remarked later how MASSIVELY inappropriate it was for someone to attend a work seminar/awayday/whatever it was, held in a museum that's very clearly aimed at young children. (It was an Inset Day for DS, so it wasn't heaving as it is at weekends, but there are school parties in on school days and DS is at a special school so his inset days are different to other local schools. I think there was a school group in that day but I can't remember now.)

I dithered for a few days about contacting the museum and suggesting that this was not a good look for their child-centred museum, but eventually decided against it. a) This was probably an outside group hiring this space, so how would they police an attendant's look? b) It was a private event, albeit with doors flung wide to the public part of the museum. c) See above. The SM are woke as hell and would just write me off as a nasty bigot.

A couple of friends alerted me to this post and I'm very grateful (??) to be able to put a name to these fake boobs! He reminded us at the time of that Canadian high school carpentry teacher.

(NC for this as it's fairly outing. Am a fairly regular poster and lurker on here.)

Haha yes. I can see where you‘ve got the idea I’m a trans woman from. I‘ve used that username a lot in the past as when I first started using the Internet, I was at uni in LADY Margaret Hall, Oxford. And they give out usernames like this. That gives you my rough age too :D

He loves wearing big boobs. It‘s weird. Oxford is full of weird people. It‘s a safe space for weird people. I fitted in there better than at school where I was very gently bullied for being a little bit awkward and having a too long skirt, a satchel and grey pull up socks. (no massive fake boobs I promise!). I just personally think, you folks might be going down a rabbit hole, when you are ‚stalking‘ people online because they are weird. But go for it I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️

This is no different from him dressing up as a 1950s theatrical comedy version of a different ethnic group, and students of that actual ethnicity having to sit there and pretend to be fine with it.
He isn’t at my DD’s college, thank the Lord. I feel very sorry for the students having to see him and his rubber norks at 9:30 on a Monday morning.

If there is any concern a male person is wearing prosthetic breasts to work for fetishist reasons, it is actually a huge safeguarding red flag about that male person’s workplace behaviour.

Women are being told on one hand about gateway abuse acts of male people in regards to paraphilic behaviour in VAWAG campaigns but then they may be being exposed to those behaviours under a guise of legitimacy in the workplace.

This is a huge fucking concern. Wearing these breasts in public makes it a public discussion

I hear Starmer's asked him to be the new Washington ambassador. I'm sure he'll pass the security vetting.

We a know what you care about and it’s not the poor women being subjected to this. Was the boy a bully in the Emperors New Clothes?
Anyone not horrified by this is a disgrace.

. It‘s a safe space for weird people.

no it's a fucking university! Safe space for weird ppl - ffs

and what about the non weird ppl who don't want a bloke parading giant comedy breasts at them while he lectures/tutors? Or are they not allowed a 'safe space'?

A safe space for weird people might be a comfortable room at Ashworth Hospital. Not a university FFS.

Are you his mum?

Do you not have any concern about sexualised behaviour by someone in a position of power being a form of abuse towards the students?
Weird is good. But massive fake boobs is sexualised weird, it’s not like doing crazy things with your hair or wearing an unfashionable skirt length.

I’d find it offensive if a man walked out in black face and I find it offensive when a man tries to involve other people in their very obvious fetishistic behaviour whilst he performs woman face.

Would you be ok if he turned up to work in blackface and an Afro wig? Would you still say that was acceptable and no one should judge him? If not, why not?

I couldn't care less about this bloke and his fake norks, but does Oxford University have no self-respect? Why has such a revered organisation beclowned itself to this level? Fear I assume, can't think.of any good reason they'd allow it. The fools.

What about the poster who said he was there at a museum when school kids were there? Totally inappropriate. How sad that you as a woman can’t support other women (or children) in this because of your do-gooder stance. His needs and wants are a priority in your world, sad.

This is a good read about how society seems to have forgotten what we used to know about crossdressing behaviour in males.

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When I started working sex crimes in 2015, it was still understood that crossdressers did it for sexual reasons, and common knowledge that transvestitic fetishism is often found in men who display other predatory sexual behaviors.

10+ years ago, we all knew that crossdressing in males was closely linked with predatory sexual behaviour. This has not changed. Society has been groomed to see these males as 'brave and stunning' or just harmless but a bit weird. Their action in dressing in this way is harmful to any woman or girl who finds their appearance distressing or threatening. They know this, which means that none of these males are completely harmless, even if their behaviour doesn't escalate.

exactly - I mean apparently Oxford university is a safe space for weird ppl and not an institute for teaching and learning as I stupidly always thought it was what with having university in the tittle so turning up dressed like that should be fine shouldn't it? And not all offensive

It's a FUCKING FETISH!

'Pride' has been pushing public displays of kink and fetish for years now, and here we are.

Unusual? Try perverted.

Let’s not be mean to perverts, a lady might object.