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."

I doubt his revision teaching is going to be very effective as all the students will be squirming with discomfort at the massive, obvious red flags on display.

It's quite hard to focus on biochemistry I'd imagine if you feel (consciously as we do here or unconsciously as many female students may do) that you're being used as an unconsenting participant in someone else's fetish.

But we're clear now you only care about the man wearing comedy fake boobs and his right to make everyone around him feel like shit so he can get his jollies wearing comedy fake boobs. Got it.

Someone menrioed stag parties. There's almost something endearing about old fashioned rugger buggers wearing inflated balloons. And you could apply hat pins!

They're certainly going about misogyny in a less inappropriate setting and more honestly than Matt.

I am unsure that "as normal" is an appropriate phrase in this context.

As usual for him, perhaps.

I dare say, because of his subject, that this person is aware that Dr.Crick, when he attended a lecture by Dr Rosalind Franklin, he recorded that he had not taken anything in because he was looking at her perfectly normal breasts.
Matt whathisname is putting many of his students in that position, without their being as at fault as Crick.

Interesting. I presume completely normal size and also appropriately covered, plus of course the main thing, an actual normal part of her body, unlike for Matt (who fails on the size, covering and fact they're fake and intentionally worn to cause upset in others / as part of his fetish).

Phew, congrats on that quick edit @oxfordfeminist - you didn’t want to misgender Matt R did you…

I saw in a compilation of responses to his photo in the red lacy dress the following exchange

Woman A: Looking Beautiful and Handsome :-)

Matt R: Freshers week is a great excuse to get dressed up

in no universe would a Matilda R give that response about welcoming 18yrs old as they move away from home

Yeah, I'm human, I forgot that Matt uses they/them pronouns. I doubt they'd mind though.

I just had a a revision session with a finalist today who uses he/him pronouns but dresses as a woman. He is a great person and an impressive scholar, and gets on very well with the rest of the cohort. I felt proud of Oxford as a place where you can dress as you like and the focus is on learning.

Warmth and solidarity and learning carry on.

Despite people who have never met Matt falling down the rabbit hole of transphobia.

'Othering' is super easy from behind a screen, but when you meet people in real life, it's different.

😂- even the gender cultists can't remember not to notice sex in language as we've seen so many times (that honestly it's getting boring) in court. Correctly sexing in the English language is pretty innate and very difficult to avoid even when you want to. It's why it's perfect for the 1984 environment of Oxford university as so so easy to slip up and then there will be a struggle session / witch hunt / punishment for heresy (which is what Woman A is presumably trying to avoid with her sycophancy).

And no woman academic gets 'dressed up' in a red lacy dress for Freshers week. I was wondering if it was a stunt or a fetish but I'm leaning fetish based on that response. Or rather.

FETISH, FETISH, FETISH KLAXON RED FLAG ALERT FETISH

Grim he's using young female freshers in this way.

TBH the trans people I know are quite forgiving when you get their pronouns wrong. They realise that it's the intention that counts. I'm not getting any younger and sometimes I muddle up the names of my own DC.

Misgendering people on purpose is a different story.

Anyway, peace and love to all.

How do you know he dresses "as a woman"? How do you know he isn't challenging the gender stereotypes of clothing by showing that "man's" clothes are whatever the man in question wants to wear?

After all, it's the second version that is really "wearing what you like". The first version is just a different version of "letting gender drive your clothes".

I respect a man who wears dresses because he's a man who likes dresses. It's the ones who wear dresses "because women wear dresses" I find shallow and sexist.

(This is assuming his pronouns are sex-based. If this is a trans man thinking she is clever by being "a man, but dressing as a woman" rather than understanding that prioritising the sexism of gender over the reality of her sex means she has thrown away the baby and kept the bathwater regardless of how she may chose to dress...well it doesn't say much for the old Oxford education!)

Sexism is still sexism though. I don't condone the sexism of fetishistic woman-coded dress on men any more than I condone a man wearing a "woman, make me a sammich" t shirt.

There's literally no difference in my eyes - equally sexist the pair of them.

Let’s hear from a colleague or student!

Yes; in real life, being threatened with a knife and being told flat lies about what I was supposed to have said less then fifteen minutes earlier was nastier for me than just putting up with fools on the internet. I do tend to "other" violent people and pathological liars.

(I say pathological because I don't think he was able to prevent himself from spouting bullshit and making the wild accusation, even though I have never in my life assumed that all trans people are rapists: I know too many. Also, it would be an idiotic thing to say when the ones who have had their penises cut off are not capable of committing rape in this country. It's just part of the script, and I ought not to have taken having it attributed to me as an insult; but I did.)

I judge individuals as individuals. In the case being discussed on this thread I think the man appears to be an idiot, and a rather nasty one, entirely on the basis of his reported behaviour. If you say all the photographs are faked and all the utterances purporting to be by him have been added to his accounts without his knowledge or consent, I'd like to see some evidence for this before I take your word for it.

oxfordfeminist appears to be claiming to be a colleague, but I'd need evidence for that before I took it as gospel.

If you say all the photographs are faked and all the utterances purporting to be by him have been added to his accounts without his knowledge or consent, I'd like to see some evidence for this before I take your word for it.

??? I never said that. His photos and posts seem fine to me.

I teach at Oxford but in a different subject. I'm not sure where I teach makes any difference though.

How do you know he dresses "as a woman"? How do you know he isn't challenging the gender stereotypes of clothing by showing that "man's" clothes are whatever the man in question wants to wear?

I agree with this point. I think my student is just wearing what he feels comfortable in. Matt R is doing the same.

"If" is the giveaway there. If you do this, then I'd want to see evidence.

Sorry, what's your subject again? Classics, wasn't it?

Is this a male student who enjoys crossdressing or a female student who likes to pretend she's a man by "using" he/him pronouns, but looks just like any other woman?

What nonsense. You need to recalibrate. Disagreeing with what someone does is not hate speech. You are on a forum with women who had to put up with men telling them to get out of the workplace/no point educating or training women as they just get pregnant/ignoring topless calendars on the (professional) office wall! You and Matt need to toughen up - Newsflash - things aren't always just naice and how you would like them and some people won't like you/yourviews/youractions. Get over yourself

Are we at cross purposes? I was agreeing with you. I think your sister was right, as are we all who have our doubts or unease about those who tell us, no matter how subtly or otherwise, who they are or who they might be, given the chance, which can be so easily engineered when we are 'taught' to ignore those instincts.

Would he wear the same get up if he were tutoring a group of only male students?