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."

Far too many schools, colleges and universities seem to falling over themselves to accommodate people's gender identity as factually true. This would include staff who are allowed to enter students' toilets, changing rooms and residential accommodation.

I'll never understand why.

Unfortunately the staff in key positions have been groomed by the groomers. Sadly part of the grooming playbook since forever - get the adults that are in a position of influence on board first. They'll create the policies and a top-down culture that professes to be about "kindness and respect" but, when looked at with a closer lens, it actually means active** use of opposite-sex pronouns and accommodation in opposite-sex spaces.

From MrsO's post above (my italics):

Using children and young people as the targets for your fetish is quite deliberate. It's also why adults who work with the young are relentlessly targeted with the insistence that they must be kind and accepting of the sacred caste in order to neutralise any challenge from them.

** Pronoun avoidance won't be good enough. It'll be positioned as unkind, disrespectful and erasing someone's identity.

Edited to add: I mean grooming in the sense of coercion and manipulation here. Hopefully I'm within the MN guidelines 🤞

BonfireLady
Please could you share the link that this quote is from?

https://www.blogto.com/city/2023/08/oakville-teacher-known-massive-prosthetic-breasts-returning-new-school/

It seems to be quoting an article in a newspaper, which wasn't where I found it, so it might not be accurate, but that's where I got it from. Sorry if it's wrong.

Ah. It's also in https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/trustees-publicly-question-handling-of-transgender-teacher-with-oversized-breasts

quite a long way down, below a picture of the "breasts" in question, in a white stretch garment. According to that he made the claim in an email.

Quite.

There will be students who have accepted places at this college, for his subject area who will now be stressed about how to deal with the situation, should they take up their place.

The prospective students will be young, often international so away from home for the first time. The reputation of Oxford Uni was diminished previously due to the Student Union debacle, and lost funding, this will further impact it's reputation and funding.

Which alumni would associate themselves with the college?

The primacy of student safety and wellbeing must always be distinguished, prioritized, and protected by those in positions of power. Students must come first

Great quote from that article. This is what Oxford Uni needs to remember.

Had Matt chosen enormous, comical sized fake boobs would it have been ok? Do they have a rule about fake cup size?

No response to this question? Quelle surprise.

I think that in the interim the PP above was absolutely correct- this lecturer should have an up to date photo on the website making his “identity” plain for all to see. Students and their parents can then make their own decisions. Longer term Oxford University need to consider that most people will consider this unprofessional conduct whatever this person believes their identity to be. If they don’t act then we can infer how much they respect their female students and staff. If it was my DD going there I’d be considering deferment or transfer - ignoring gender identity this man’s behaviour is too close to an old men i once encountered who sat quietly on the train exposing his genitals to get a reaction from us girls and enjoy “euphoria”. The behaviour of this Oxford chap looks way too similar to that…Oxford Uni need to get a grip

I'll answer it. On the assumption that if he was coming to the house because he was a friend of either my grandmother or the family I would assume he had positive qualities so strong that they outweighed his frankly bizarre form of dress. At the funeral itself I would expect to see the norks covered (as I would in a lecture hall tbh).

If Oxford are so keen on the bring your true self to work, they should certainly display pictures of staff dressed in their true work attire. But no rush to stick up a publicity photo of this staff member it seems.

He is the funeral director.

They aren't implants, he would be making a conscious decision to put the rubber 'breastplate' on when dressing for said hypothetical funeral.

Sorry, can't resist (photo loading):

I think we were smarter as a population when hardly anyone went to uni..... because then people really valued knowledge, truth and integrity.

He's the funeral director as a pp pointed out. Not a friend of the family. A professional who arranges funerals.

He's arranged it.

What if it was your doctor? You go to see your doctor. And he's sitting there with those comedy breasts.

I can't help wondering if someone who doesn't know who 'the man who comes to your house to arrange the funeral', is, means it's never crossed their mind, because they're very young.

I asked myself the doctor question, and it was revealing. I would feel uncomfortable and demeaned, I really would. But would I say something in that particular context? Honestly, even as someone very forthright about her rights, I'm not sure. As someone pointed out upthread, the mere fact of him sitting there indicates that the people running the practice (or college) - and presumably his colleagues (as they've either not complained, or their complaints haven't been taken further) - are OK with it. Good healthcare's increasingly hard to come by, it's my local practice and has been reliable through the yearsin ways others haven't, it's geographically convenient, and there's a Pride progress flag by the door (highly likely)and a poster recommending that "people" get checked for breast cancer (not unlikely).

I'd genuinely worry about being quietly blacklisted or receiving a compromised standard of care.

And that, friends (also just catching up on the essay reclining chairs thread!), is absolutely damning.

Yes, that's probably what I'd do. Make an excuse and rebook. Of course, if I wanted a discrete way of ensuring I didn't find myself in there again, even the, "Could I see a woman / female doctor next time, please?" is being degraded by the Dr. Uptons of the world. I do think I'd say something too, on reflection. Better me than a young teen or very elderly woman. Goodness only knows how I'd couch it in the current climate, though.

Grey rock, and removing oneself as fast as possible, without arousing any suspicions or creating any difficult situation, is exactly the most sensible approach.

One that women are well versed in.

It's not hard to recognise a creepy fucker with a fetish, who is using others and their responses for gratification.

What is absolutely astounding is that some people/sections of society are normalising this abuse. It's just insane.

I will also note that its possible this man is traumatised, in need of support, is deeply confused, is highly intelligent, is vulnerable.

His dress and behaviour sets up a whole colonnade of red flags for women and girls - except for those who have been re-educated to think that its acceptable for a man to wear a pair of enormous fake breasts in a work or education setting, and who have learned to dismiss all the instinctive and informed skills of risk recognition that women and girls unfortunately grow up needing to acquire.

It's that western society reached this point so very quickly, too. From upholding these boundaries to condemning them in what, 30 or so years? You know how quickly things deteriorate for women in The Handmaid's Tale adaptation? This absolute inversion of accepted ways of thinking, and that it involves doggedly denying everything we always knew, really shows how vulnerable we all are to goodness knows what in the future. We're pretty much just as we were back in Salem, we simply pretend not to be - and that pretence makes us even more vulnerable in ways. Scary.

Well, absolutely.

There will be many who try to pass it off as harmless oddity, I suppose. Eccentric Oxford dons with their weird peccadilloes.

That's fine so long as one gives absolutely zero consideration to the girls/young women/female colleagues who have to deal with this man making an utter mockery of their bodies and knowingly, openly subverting their boundaries.

I was reflecting on my teens girl friends. They are very aware and actively call out "traditional" male inappropriate sexual boundaries such as comments about their bodies or touching without consent but would never dare mention sexualised behaviour if the person was trans.BeKind has them terrified of bring cancelled.

Wolf's in sheep's clothing.

It's terrifying. An anti facts and science, anti women, anti child safeguarding ideology being able to upturn society with even politicians spouting nonsense about the female penis shows how vulnerable society is to entryism from destructive forces.