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."

This too.

There's a lot of academics on here, maybe we could ask Gussie to make some giant glittery knitted phalluses for us and try the experiment ourselves. We could start "wear a willie to work" day!

I'll get my coat.

I'd walk out of his lectures and ask for my money back. Why should anyone have to partake in his evil perversions. How far we have all fallen if anyone puts up with this in university.

Imagine being an 18 or 19 year old woman who’s passionate about her subject and who’s worked very hard to achieve the grades and to get through a tough interview to receive an offer to study Biochemistry at St Hilda’s. Imagine the horror of realising that this disrespectful mocking oaf is your tutor or lecturer. Imagine how crushing this would feel, and how uneasy and shaky and uncomfortable it’d make your early days and weeks of your undergraduate life.

If this is genuine then it’s the most graphic, shocking “fuck you and your aspirations and hopes and your hard work at school” to female scientists at Oxford. Shame on everyone who’s enabled it.

I’d happily contribute to the cost.

Genuinely horrified by this.

He loves wearing big boobs

People often love to do things that include sexual elements that others find distressing and uncomfortable. This is why they are discouraged in public places, and criminalised if overtly sexual, like flashing.

He shouldn’t be allowed to behave as he does.

I'm much more angry with Oxford university than with him. Perverts going to pervert if they're allowed - and Oxford university are allowing it. Why the hell are they letting him behave like this?

I think that what threads like this show is just how low some people’s boundaries must be for inappropriate behaviour such as this man’s choices to be defended.

It serves as a great reminder that those who will defend this man’s choices in a professional setting cannot recognise that inappropriate behaviour. Some times those people then also tell us they are in roles responsible for safeguarding too.

Either way, it is a good demonstration as to how poor safeguarding decisions are made when choices such as this man has made are defended.

You know, I read stuff like this and think, 1) men have so much audacity and 2) you really don't have to bring your whole self to work, leave that crap at home.

No idea but let’s hope there are some journalists reading this who can investigate properly on behalf of the female student scientists at Oxford and expose this for what it is.

Someone needs to take the first step so young women who feel uncomfortable with this man parading his paraphilias right in front of them feel encouraged to voice their discomfort. Kirsty Wark? Emma Barnett? Emily Maitlis?

It's terrifying.

It is.

For one minute I was worried that Oxford had completely lost its marbles and given Katie Price a position. Panic over.

Yes, quite. But can you also imagine the response if a woman wore huge fake breasts with plunging necklines to work ?! (And that would be arguably more appropriate, since women do have breasts naturally.) Does anyone honestly think that her colleagues and managers would be unconditionally accepting?

Yet another thread mocking a trans person simply for existing.

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oh please try another less tired old cliche, we get this one way too often!

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I don’t think anyone knows what universities are for, anymore. Increasingly they’re sausage machines whose only purpose to bring workers up to the required level of functioning.

I suppose the original intention, whether of the university or of the colleges, was the advancement of education, learning and research but that, demonstrably, now encompasses any old bollocks. Since there’s a fine line between, say, alchemy and medicine, it’s plausible that some of what was taught in universities centuries ago would now be considered untenable. But then, theology has always been taught in universities and, in contrast with anthropology, that’s also a conundrum.

And if it was someone wearing blackface working for Oxford University? I guarantee they'd be sent home the same day, investigation immediately underway, and a massive exercise in damage limitation with apologies for anyone offended in an effort to avoid reputational damage.

But, it's only bloody women, they can get over themselves, eh? The bitches.

I wonder what the students think. They live at St Hilda’s and study and dine there. This guy doesn’t appear to have a DPhil so what are they thinking? Imagine Paying to send your child to Oxford to be taught by an unqualified fetishist.

I find it very poignant that this is being revealed at the same time as a Cambridge academic, Simon Goldhill, is being called out as a predator after groping female students and forcing unwanted kisses on them over a career of many decades. There is a general acceptance now that what he did was wrong. (The shocker is that he was allowed to continue over many years after the debate seemed to have ended over whether this stuff was ok or not.)
And now we have a brand new way of using sexualised behaviour to teach women students that their comfort and safety matter less than that of men, that they are less, that public spaces should be dominated by men.
The other tragedy is that it’s St Hilda’s which used to be a women’s college.

Yet another thread exposing a man with a sexual perversion that he thinks is appropriate to display in the workplace.

There you go, fixed it for you. You’re welcome.

Very funny 😁