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 do agree. I thought universities were spaces where ideas could be challenged and robust discussions could be had that would enable people to learn and develop critical thinking skills and departing skills. Apparently not.

Nobody was "born a woman". A woman is an adult human female.

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

Well no, because we're not parading an obvious fetish in public, in front of teenagers. HTH.

Don't tell me how to react to a man in power abusing it in plain sight.

Aren't clowns supposed to be funny ? One look at him and i am ROFL.

All socks have to be pulled up, don't they?

A bearded lady...? 🤔

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

If he didn't want people to point, laugh and be disgusted by him, the easiest solution would be not to wear a ridiculous woman costume with giant fake breasts to work.

It's his choice. The fact that he has chosen to do this indicates that he wants the attention.

I'm sure he gets off on the fear and disgust he sees on the faces of the women who come into contact with him. It's what it's all about.

Really interesting post N.Cunningham wondering if this amounts to harrasment on a mass scale.
Grades allowing my DD is going to Oxford this year - thankfully not St Hildas.

I asked her would she be bothered if she bumped into Matt & his huge plastic breasts, shes tiny & admits she'd be freaked out but too terriified to say anything, even if in a single sex space (i dont think theres been any hint that he uses SSS but who knows?)

I fucking hate these men who can't keep their paraphillia under control & deliberately involve others in it. And shame on Oxford & St Hildas in particular for not telling this prick (and others like him at the Uni) to knock it on the head.

So sick of these cunts.

The point is everyone knows about fucking huge fake breasts. They turn corners before he does.

If a woman turned up in black-face she would be marched out by security. How is a man turning up in woman-face deemed to be OK?

You said it 👍

So basically, you’re sticking up for him because he’s at Oxford.
Well I went to an East London Comprehensive where no one would have stood for this behaviour. And I’m very happy about that.

He’s just being his authentic self so we’ve been led to believe. I guess when we have actual laws that say people can reassign their gender, with no actual definitions of what this actually means there will be people who will do exactly what they want to the point of extremes.

Unfortunately an apparently real one who priorities men with fetishes over the comfort of women. 😕

Janet!

Exactly, can you imagine the outrage if a woman wore a giant phallus, knitted from machine washable wool, with glittery embellishments, and expected to be taken seriously in her job?

Far from being the mean girls at school, I think a large proportion of posters here were more likely to have been, like you, the less "cool" (ugh!), more independent kids. So many of us were resolutely gender-non-conforming, at least. It's that tendency that's made us so wary of trans ideology and the gendered stereotypes (see OP!) it embraces.

FWIW, I actually share your concerns to some degree about threads critiquing people who haven't put themselves in the public eye. But I wanted to post this because I do think you risk oversimplifying a complex issue.

The parallel you draw between you in your long skirt and neat socks and this guy is actually really ironic.

You: vulnerable, younger female
Him: professional older male

You: resisting stereotypes of femininity
Him: embracing these in a self-evidently fetishistic way (I mean, come on!)

You: likely trying to blend into the background (apologies if not)
Him: must be aware of the attention and unease his appearance courts

I mean, there's no comparison!

Posters here would say his behaviour totally legitimises this discussion and, honestly, I think I come down more on their side than yours - a kind of uncomfortable 70:30. I mean, yes, the people around him who work for and under, and are taught by, him should be the ones calling this out if it makes them uncomfortable. And maybe they are, maybe they're not. Who knows? But in the meantime, he's still doing it. And it makes us uncomfortable just to know that, because of the implications for society.

This "bring your whole self to work" can actually only work if some lines are drawn. Boundaries are the glue holding everything together. Dissolve them completely and our more vulnerable groups suffer. Kids have a right not to be exposed to the darker sides of adult sexuality - hence the watershed. And in a professional or public environment, I'd say women have the right not to be used as (overused phrase here, but that's only cos it's so perfect) unconsenting props in a man's fetish. Both are an issue in this individual's behaviour. And he invites criticism because of that.

I wouldn’t know or care if someone was wearing a buttplug at work.

If they were wearing a t-shirt that read "I a wearing a buttplug" would that be ok or problematic?

@Lady1576

Is he claiming to be a transwoman? Because if he is, he is seriously damaging trans credibility. If he's wearing giant, comedy breasts because it's a fetish then it's highly unprofessional and could offend many of his students. I believe there are times when the clothes you wear to work should be questioned. That's not bullying. And just for the record I was never remotely a mean girl or a bully. Quite the opposite.

This ! Dd hasn’t come across him yet, he is based at a different college but he is in her field so she may do. Why should any woman have to go along with this ? It’s a total mockery of women as a sex. I have never seen a female academic at work dressed like this, it’s hardly appropriate work dress , even if he was female and had real breasts.
It’s deeply creepy and he must know that he makes students uncomfortable, and so one can only assume that he enjoys doing just that.

What is it with men and their furtive little proclivities?

Plus, speaking for myself - and PP says the same about her daughter upthread - I'd genuinely struggle to access lectures and seminars with this guy. I'd find it distressing and humiliating. Which, frankly, says it all. Inclusion of some will always mean exclusion of others ins some way and to some degree. I'm on the side of the teenaged females coming up to uni. and feeling silenced by an ideology that says their discomfort affecting their access to and enjoyment of their education is nothing relative to his discomfort were he forbidden from dressing as he wishes for the 8 hours a day spent at work.

Precisely. No woman would over-sexualise herself at work, she'd lay herself open to very obvious criticism - some of it sexist, some of it justified - and not be taken seriously. Women who have very generous breasts don't go out of their way to reveal them in a professional setting like this guy does.

I am sorry for the ear worm, but if I am going to suffer it all day I don’t see why the rest of you should get away scot free.