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."

Indeed but imagine a woman with large breasts (or even small ones) wearing such a revealing garb to a lecture. She would be "dealt with" by the management.

This, one million times this.

He is sexually harassing the women in the workplace. He should be disciplined for this behaviour, it is not appropriate in the workplace, just as wearing a full gimp suit would not be or a massive fake dildo outside your clothes.

And I bet also if a normal female academic came to work one day with massive fake boobs and a hugely revealing shirt she'd be spoken to.

I know someone who works at Oxford. His comment on the TIMs there is 'they come to work looking like they work in the porn industry - no actual woman would be taken seriously or allowed to keep their job if they did so'.

Give over.

LOL. You think the TRAs would claim this bloke as one of theirs?!!!!!!

Oh please...

Yes, just what I was thinking. Well @AStonedRose has claimed him on their behalf, so I guess he does belong to them. Whadja think guys? D'ya wanna claim this one or not?

You think that is just existing? Your definition of just existing is skewed. Just existing would be living under the radar, not deliberately bringing attention to himself, not craving attention. This man is the polar opposite of just existing. 🤨

Because they can’t do anything. What he probably wants is to be challenged and then to take the University to tribunal. It would blow up. If they let it play out he will hopefully lose interest or leave. He’s not on a permanent contract and he has no departmental connection. He will be making next to nothing as a college lecturer.

I’ll pass. @AStonedRose is more deserving of him.

Surely he wouldn't win, though?

It's not "for existing", though, is it? It's for coming to work dressed this way. That's pretty explicit throughout the thread. So why not engage with it and argue your actual case? As nois says, cliché gets you nowhere, especially when it's a lazy misrepresentation of the issue at hand.

This is Oxford University. Eccentricity is part of the job spec.

We’re all simply existing. That’s all most of us can do.

I'm not sure how much the discomfort of others should affect how we present ourselves tbh. There are general societal standards eg cover your genitals but beyond that it's pretty much up to the individual isn't it? Do you think women's clothing choiced should be policed or just mens? If men want to wear false breasts or dresses or make up let them.

No one needs to perform a sexual fetish using non consenting others. That is not 'existing', that is abuse.

The interesting inner world of the person committing the abuse on others is entirely irrelevant.

Twaddle - this isn't 'eccentricity' it's 'parading your fetish in public do you can get turned on at work by it'

I think think a codpiece/gimp mask protest from the women in his classes would be fair comment - I would love to see how the university authorities who are either sanctioning or turning a blind eye to this would deal with a bunch of women very seriously expressing their gender identities and relieving their dysphoria by the prominent wearing of peen prosthetics

I see the batshit signal has gone out on Reddit....

It is staggering that people would come running to defend this, but that's transactivism for you. And then they wonder why in the eye of the general public 'trans' has become synonymous with 'inappropriate sexual behaviour, pathological levels of entitlement, no boundaries and a major fail on social appropriacy' and are acting accordingly.

Surely this sort of deliberate fetish behaviour whilst at work should be dealt with under the grounds of ‘behaviour risking bringing the University into disrepute’?

Why aren’t HR stepping in?

Is he one of those vile male lecturers who behave appallingly because they think they’re untouchable? I’ve met a few of those types in my time sadly and it’s always the ‘best’ Universities where they’re allowed to do their worst with no consequences. 😡

that's precisely the mental image I got when I clapped eyes on him in the Story Museum!

It's the confounding combo of beard and boobs. I note that on LinkedIn, he is a they/them so I suppose - hence beard/boobs?? I'm also convinced he keeps the beard long to hide the join.

When did false breasts become a 'clothing choice'?

"a bit weird"??

If he was wearing a gimp mask, would that be OK?

He is acting out his sexuality at work. It's not about his identity, it's clearly and shamelessly sexual and as such is creating an uncomfortable and potentially hostile environment for colleagues and students.

Disgusting that the university allows this.

It was ever thus my dear! I do think Oxbridge gets special dispensation for being as mad as a box of wet hens.

Wow. Saying that people should be professional at work is now a deletable offence?