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."

@oxfordfeminist I do think answering the question posed about blackface warrants an answer. Equally anyone presenting themselves with cultural misappropriation surely would not and should not be tolerated - anywhere.

I am very open to you explaining how we would be discussing Matt Rattley presenting as another race. I think we would be very cautious about using the word nuance.

Oh you are back @oxfordfeminist.

There are two questions I would love you to answer.

Why did students wearing sombreros on a piss up get into trouble, or wearing blackface yet Matt can don (pun intended) giant prosthetic breasts and that is just him being 'comfortable in his skin'?

If a student came to you and she felt uncomfortable with the giant prosthetic tits, would you accept that, or would you try and help her understand why the giant prosthetic tits on a bearded man are just part of life's rich tapestry?

Imagine that student is me. Small frame but massive norks. This is pre Bravissimo. I started every single day literally grappling with my giant tits. No bras that fitted. I wore giant shirts that made me took like a tank. If I wore anything even vaguely fitted, I was guaranteed to attract unwanted male attention. They affected every aspect of my life until better bras became available and I got old enough to care a bit less.

Being faced by a man in comedy breasts during a tutorial would have absolutely broken me. Would I be safe coming to you?

Just watched an an old episode of 9 out of 10 cats does countdown wth JC wearing a similar set of fake boobs for comedic purposes. The all male panels laughed but also found it quite disturbing which as peers they could strongly verbalise.
How are young people meant to cope with this? Why are we normalising this shit?

I thought @SecretSquirrelLoo's post yesterday at 21:13 was a useful insight. The are effectively members of a closed and controlling religion, and their self-worth depends on not challenging it. See their shock and bafflement when we don't treat the 'phobic' accusation as an automatic shut-down, and their conviction that 'gender' has always been a single, definable, unchanging thing people have. It's all cod theology.

@Kucinghitam 's insights about race-based abuse are also a very useful comparison. I hope OF comes back and tells us again why the abuser is more important than the victim.

@DeanElderberry I agree. This whole gender is a social construct is a mantra for them.

I think what is sad is that the young women who are opting out of womanhood and undergoing double mastectomies are given child like language such as ‘top surgery’ to describe the mutilation.

Where will this all stop? People identifying as disabled using the same language as the trans movement have? People removing limbs because they ‘feel’ like they shouldn’t have a leg for example?

I am aware of the guy who did this as part of his fetish but I can see outside of the fetish world anxious young people being brainwashed to believe they should only have one leg.

I used to work in education and left at the peak of young girls deciding to identify as boys. They were all incredibly vulnerable and seemed frightened of growing up. They should have been left to naturally grow up but instead they went from anxiety medication to endocrinologist appointments to blockers to testosterone incredibly fast. Many of them with parents able to get and pay for private referrals.

This gentleman is 'othering' himself loudly and emphatically, he is doing everything he possibly can to draw attention, while looking people in the eye and daring them to stop pretending and call him out for it.

He's making a complete fool of tolerant people who will pretend beyond all reasonability for him, what a lovely bucket of sexual power that is. There really is a point where this mad enablement at the expense of women gets quite ridiculous. And it always is enabling a man at the expense of women.

I guess what we are asking is how far are we expected to push our boundaries to accommodate others desire to identify as another sex/race/non binary etc.

It seems if we do not keep moving our own boundaries then we will be seen as not ‘be kind’ people. It is such a dreadful play on the use of language.

The rate we are going everyone in the workplace will identify as someone with a protected characteristic and HR will be in a worse pickle than they already are with all the DEI stuff.

Well you're othering all the students who have safeguarding instincts and don't want to participate in this man's fetish. Which is going to be a much bigger number than the 1 that is the man wearing enormous fake breasts.

He feels comfortable (or quite possibly, more than comfortable), everyone else does not. There's a power differential too. It's sexual harassment.

There is such a lack of logic. I'm wondering why my taxpayers money goes towards the research being done there when they're so fucking stupid.

Every time Oxfordfeminist posts I'm reminded of the aunt Lydia's who enabled Gilead

This.

And the enablement is never 'kind'. It always involves throwing other women under the bus to enable the man. It's become socially virtuous to some to not only serve their sexism by prioritising men, but actively sacrificing and harming other women to show how very little they matter compared to the one with a penis.

The toilets conversation on another thread, this one here, it's all the same thing. It is not evolved or superior or progressive to harm women to nurture a man with sexual and social issues. It may be a bit of a circle jerk signal of virtue within a circle of others with similarly sexist social beliefs. From the outside it looks a bit mad.

I think the past 30 years has seen so much organised funding and research into the transgender movement history will look back and hopefully unpick the Harry Benjamin to WPATH legacy and hopefully expose it for what it is. Fetish dressed up to push boundaries under the woke and ‘be kind’ mantra. Big pharmaceutical companies know they are getting customers for life and the use of language as ‘affirming care’ has seen responsibility for safeguarding be blown out of all proportion.

I do think the young women who have been directed down this route have been let down by every adult and health care provider they have encountered.

The social engineering of this movement is horrific. Every institution captured with TRAs writing policies and contributing to school curricula. Quite frankly we have been marched all over.

But if anyone does dare to comment in a space where comment is possible as Tanya de Grunwald did on Linkedin - even in the mildest terms - he deletes that.

I'd simply like to ask him 'do you think your students feel comfortable with you wearing pornified fake breasts on display?'. I'd like him to answer that question. Plus biochemistry faculty and the St Hilda's governing board. What a waste of space they all are.

The authoritarian abuse of power is pretty clear.

It is, as a PP has said, the University prioritising abuser over victims.

Bearing in mind too that paraphilias cluster and exhibitionism is a well known starting point on an escalating ladder of sexual offending, I'm not sure how 'kind' it is to enable someone with obvious significant issues in the belief that this is just 'self expression' and some kind of lovely, powerful thing to do that only sillies mind about, and help him push ever further. Because there will be consequences at a certain point, as various members of the Green and SNP parties are discovering, and the nurturing wilful naivety will stop abruptly. To my mind that's no 'kind' way at all.

The comment about childish language is really interesting, esp. re. the nuance issue, BlueLegume.

I'd not thought of it quite this way before, but there's so much of it - "be kind!" "this is this and that is that!" and, of course, the endless hyperbole about "hate" (which really is the language of the playground when applied so unthinkingly to women discussing their rights). There's a childishness to the thinking, too - it's so simplistic - right/wrong, black/white, good/evil etc.

And then when you see all that layered over what are, fundamentally, irreconcilable inconsistencies in what's being said, at least without careful analysis and argument (which we never get), it really does expose it as cod-science / magical thinking / crowd mentality.

These are all features of OF's posts.

I really am getting more direct in my frustration at these things, because I've been resisting saying it this clearly for a while but am going to now: I don't believe for a second that they're an academic.

Yes, you can get "stupid" academics, and certainly very stupid politicians, where you see this kind of superficial engagement with a complex issue - but there's usually a particular, recognisable flavour to the stupidity that means you can at least see how they got whatever position it is they're in - it's mitigated by reductive political conviction, or canny rhetoric, or a clear capacity for meaningful analysis in other contexts that is just not being engaged here.

OF's posts just don't seem to have that. They come across as very immature - sometimes quite childish - in style and in thought. I honestly do think it's likeliest that they're a late teen / young adult.

ETA on reading Legume's last - yes, you can see how marketing has influenced the whole thing, too, in the simplicity of the mantras.

That was why I though Mr Menno's insightful question as to sexual motivation was important, and that being too 'respectful' to go there was a mistake.

Just a reminder that not everyone on the internet is who they say they are.

The threads on these boards often attract posters which imply that they are an older female (when there are male posters under neutral names who are perfectly welcome) with lots of life experience, but who then proceed to speak as though theyve never lived in the normal world as a female does. Often they’ll claim some scenario where they have insider knowledge about that workplace or type of environment, or safeguarding etc etc but then spout the most huge amount of nonsense. Usually they are “feminist”.

If OF is really a female academic in Oxford who is acquainted with Matt, I’ll eat my hat!

End of public service announcement.

Ha! Cross posted with @Catiette
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@Catiette really liked your paragraph “I'd not thought of it quite this way before, but there's so much of it - "be kind!" "this is this and that is that!" and, of course, the endless hyperbole about "hate" (which really is the language of the playground when applied so unthinkingly to women discussing their rights). There's a childishness to the thinking, too - it's so simplistic - right/wrong, black/white, good/evil etc.

You are correct. We are referred to as hateful gender critical woman, plus some men. What we actually are a concerned sex realists looking in aghast at a society that has collapsed in terms of a moral compass. Institutions, the Civil Service, education and most concerningly the NHS all completely captured into going along with a lie.

This has been a long road to trample over decent societal norms.

Yes, the childish language goes along with a toddler-like mentality. Who here has not been told by a toddler wanting to eat chocolate / ice-cream for every meal 'I hate you! You are a big meanie!'. When obviously it would be considered seriously neglectful to accede to their request. It's absolutely the same dynamic. It's disturbing alongside the fact that mental development in those children who use puberty blockers will be affected. It's almost as if there's a group of people who WANT the next generation kept in a perpetual childlike state.

If there were any professional adults at Oxford, it would have simply and quickly been dealt with by a senior member of staff.

'Hi Matt, Please leave the huge fake boobs at home, they're not appropriate attire in a workplace'. The end.

I'd simply like to ask him 'do you think your students feel comfortable with you wearing pornified fake breasts on display?'. I'd like him to answer that question.

I'd like to ask him if he will be wearing his giant comedy breasts when he interviews for his next academic post.

Given the capture of academia I'm not sure whether it's a given they'd make him less likely to get the job. Watching senior academics beclown themselves in the Jo Phoenix court case (which to any lurkers, she won and yet the OU don't seem to have held any of the staff behaving like witchfinders to account) was something that completely undermined my trust in higher education in this country.

Reminded me both of the cultural revolution where people would denounce their friends and family and 1984. Apparently Jo P was guilty of 'wrongthink' for knowing there are two sexes in humans and sometimes sex matters.

I think that's one reason why so many of the people who see the reality of gender ideology, and how TRAs work, are mothers whose children are older. We've all watched the toddler stages. We've seen the tantrums and the magical thinking, and know that we are responsible for helping them regulate and grow up. And keeping them safe.

https://x.com/prof_curiosity1 / Read Some Piaget Please!
on X is good on child development and safeguarding with regard to GI.

In a normal world - or at least how it used to work - there would have been a quiet word had with this man by someone more senior in the college (which is pretty much everyone, given his standing) and that would have been it.

The other colleges and the university departments would probably have appreciated that, rather than having Oxford now linked all over with Enormous Fake Breasts man.

Exactly. I mean, for all we know, "oxfordfeminist" could be Matt himself. It's the internet after all, anything is true if you lie.