Biggus Titus of Oxford University

[Forecastsayssnowbutthereisnosnow]

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."

And this is the nonsense of Universities at the moment - you cannot even discuss sanely and sensibly even the current legal position without it turning into a protest. It's boringly predictable, anti-intellectual and just demonstrates that even such a well-regarded institution as Oxford University has succumbed to this nonsense. Heaven forbid a legal expert and employee might be allowed to discuss his area of expertise in such a place. A disgrace, but utterly unsurprising how far Universities have fallen to this.

That's all they've got, abuse. They never debate their position so they don't know how to do it. (Not that they've got any good arguments anyway).

😯

Words fail me. I'm an academic and that is every kind of wrong.

"Students shouldn't face bullying or harassment when attending academic events."

What is Oxford University playing at?

That’s at best a huge oversimplification. Not all universities are campus ones and physically separate from the nearest town. The one I went to was right in town, and I used to go to classes/pubs/cafes etc in town much more than to the ones at uni.
I’m sure I’m far from being the only one.

I agree.

I think the readiness of the trans movement to deploy abuse, aggression, threats of violence and actual violence is due to the factual void at the centre of transgenderism - it is based on either
[a] the claim that humans can change sex or
[b] that there is an abstract thing called 'gender' which is more real than biology.

or both.

Because of this lack of a grounding in fact, reasoned argument is not their friend.

I also think that all the talk about transphobia, anti-trans violence, annihilation, literal genocide, 'Days of Remembrance' in places where there have not been any transphobic killings, etc., is a way of keeping the trans community - especially the more vulnerable members - in a constant state of hypervigilance, so any challenge is met with an OTT response of 'literal violence/hate-fuelled bigotry' and that in turn can be used to justify aggression and violence as righteous self defence against oppression.

I realise that this is a derail from the thread subject, sorry.

I think it's all relevant though @MarieDeGournay , raising awareness and having insight to the manipulation is important. It is absolutely worth the slight derail If it helps even one person start to see through the fog.