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."

The worst thing to happen since WW2 was the Left gaining control of the universities. They have attacked and undermined the literary canon, promoted dangerous loons like Foucault, and now we have nonsense like this.

Don’t tell his supporter. She wouldn't want to think herself gullible 🤫

I guess the OP forgot that real women have to ‘be kind’, otherwise we’re horrible bullies/bigots. But men don’t have to be kind, they can make the women around them feel mocked, belittled or uncomfortable.

Aside from that, I honestly cannot believe any man doing this is NOT looking for attention or trying to provoke a reaction. Unless he has prosthetic dysmorphia??

There's a reason men like this choose a university - or even schools as we saw with the Canadian boob fetish guy. There's a special thrill in targeting the young. Watching their unease and how they try to hide their repulsion while encouraging them to fawn and offer insincere adultation to prove they're not bigots or "pearl clutchers"

It's all part of a sustained attempt to erode the boundaries of what is acceptable in society. If you gaslight and groom children and young people to accept the unacceptable then they become open targets. Unable to say no to predatory behaviour as they've leant from allegedly responsible adults that there are no limits, there are no boundaries and anything goes.

Saying no becomes right wing bigotry. Along with safeguarding children.

@Lady1576 have you see Grayson Perry and his codpiece?
Would that be ok to wear, as a lecturer?
What if a trans identifying woman wore it?

I mean it’s below waist level, so less eye catching.
I haven’t been able to attach the image, I’m sure someone can, and to be fair to Perry it’s much less obtrusive than this man’s plastic breasts.

Short of this not actually being true (and I still hold out a glimmer of hope that it's an elaborate hoax for the weekend), the best scenario is that this person is taking inspiration from that Canadian teacher to see how far they can push the boundaries before HR/leadership step in to say something.

Although, as someone who is also very familiar with Oxford Uni, I would say they can push it a lot further before anyone steps in. Oxford HR seems to be fully onboard with this sort of thing across any of the Departments I've encountered.

You've obviously never heard of AGP.

These men not only cross boundaries to make people they encounter uncomfortable, it is the very uncomfortableness demonstrated by the women and girls that encounter him that are the feeling he is wanting in order to satisfy the need.

So for example, if there were female toilets that no women entered they wouldn't bother. It is the women and their uncomfortableness that they are after, not 'somewhere to pee'. Men after all, can pee in any corner of any road or by a hedge. It is why they go out of their way to use the 'ladies' rather than just use the mixed sex toilets right in front of them. It is knowing that the women and girls in the toilets and who know that they are in a confined space with a potential danger that is the point.

@Lady1576

If you are doing research, I recommend you research the people who have been considered the founders of queer theory such as Foucault. And understand what motivated them.

Including the political influence that Foucault had on the people considered the intellectuals of France who successfully campaigned to have the age of consent lowered. If I find some of the French women and men who over the past ten years have recounted their child sex abuse that was allowed and perpetrated by the very men who declared that children were sexual beings too and took ‘lovers’ that were children, sometimes their intellectual friend’s children and were celebrated at the time.

This was considered progressive and was normalised. The mess that was the laws around sexual consent there also then impacted on the ability of women in France to get justice for rape. Even children.

All because people who raised the alarms about behaviour that should have been red flags for safeguarding children and women were denounced as not progressive and not understanding the theories of modern behaviour.

John Money is another man that has been influential. But there are others too. Read about just what behaviours they advocate as wanting normalised and then think about how those people have shaped the current thinking about that word ‘queer’. Normalising paraphilias where a man can wear large prosthetic breasts to work, or where men are led down the street with a dog collar and lead while they are wearing a dog mask, or men walking through an IKEA restaurant with dog tail butt plugs and a dog mask.

Here is an article about the Rainbow dildo adorned monkey child entertainment sponsored by a council.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/13/the-rainbow-dildo-butt-monkey-is-no-laughing-matter/

There is a reason these men have sought to normalised their paraphilic behaviours. It is not a bug, so to speak, it is a feature.

Understanding autogynephilia is hard when one group of male people with transgender identities don’t want it to be recognised because that would significantly weaken their claim to be female in anyway and another group of male people with transgender identities are very open about how they are aroused by not only thinking of themselves as being female (including sissy porn and to a degree transmaxxing), but who also are sexually aroused by other people treating them as if they are female. This latter point includes female people who are forced to do so due to policies and social pressure to do so.

The issue is all brought together though about power. Power to do what they want that transgresses other people’s personal boundaries around sexualised behaviour.

And doing so in plain sight of society and being celebrated for it.

Nope, people (men) need to leave their fetishises at home. Or take them out to a fetish club or similar where they can hang out with like-minded consenting people.

Nobody here is pointing and laughing. We’re aghast and horrified at yet another example of women’s boundaries being trampled over.

“Saying no becomes right wing bigotry.”

And for some people, they get a sense of power and righteousness in making the allegations that anyone they don’t agree with must be ‘right wing’ or ‘bigots’.

To me, those people are as credible as the man yelling ‘stop murdering children’ and ‘stop killing us’ at a group of women having to be protected from that man and his supporters by police when women and girls are simply standing around chatting while getting ready to protest to have the government table guidance for law created and passed over a decade and a half ago.

I am sure those people feel ever so good making ridiculous allegations but all it does it show that they are not even bothering to get informed about who the women are who are raising the alarm and are perpetuating misogyny designed to silence women and girls.

He’s been doing this for a while - was picked up on Threads last summer.

With respect, there is a vast difference between being awkward/geeky/too bright and looking odd (a category many of us would fit into) and co-opting unconsenting women and children in your sexual fetish. If this guy were the former (carrying satchel in to work, carefully lining up books) I would agree this is bullying - and frankly he’d fit right in in Oxford. It isn’t. This is something very very different and this man is getting an absolute blast from flaunting insanely large fake boobs in public.

That is why this is not bullying and why posters are saying you need better boundaries. The people to feel sorry for here are the women and children this man forces his fetish on.

It's eye level for children

So true. And I think it was an event for a children’s charity, if I remember correctly.

Yes.

I'm starting to think you know, its not enough to laugh and fume at these dickheads on Mumsnet, even though it feels satisfying. We need to be sending postcards, cards, letters etc to the decision makers. Can we all buy a stash of "get well" cards and postage stamps, and communicate our fury? Please! Let's let Oxford know they are a laughing stock. How else will they know? They sure as hell don't read Mumsnet.

I could happily support him wearing the dress and makeup. They’re just window dressing. But the fake boobs? No way. He should keep his fetish at home. I agree with pp’s assertion that he’s involving everyone in his kink. A bit of a laugh for men. But intimidating, demeaning and intrusive for women. Mission accomplished.

The positioning of that child's face - it's disgusting.

And remember that all Oxford colleges (there are 39) and departments, including doctoral training centres, are separate legal entities. St Hilda’s will have a separate HR department dealing with this, although they will be taking advice from legal (either internal or external, but colleges tend to hire external legal experts) in their handling of this because they will have to get their comms right.

@Catietteapologies I have now RTFT and seen that you said exactly what I did but much earlier and rather better.

And as an academic I would like to say that my commitment to the GC cause definitely stops short of going in tomorrow wearing a mahoosive knitted dildo. Please dear God no. Can we stick to placards and suffragette colours? (Though this being Mumsnet someone has probably already knitted a mahoosive dildo in suffragette colours).

Yes. And, in my experience, there is then the discussion over who actually communicates any decision or update to students and/or staff which somehow results in no clear communication actually appearing, as each side says they thought the other was responsible. 😕

Nope, people (men) need to leave their fetishises at home. Or take them out to a fetish club or similar where they can hang out with like-minded consenting people.

I agree but like-minded and consenting doesn't give them the exhilaration they want. They might start off with that, once they've ventured outside, but it will always escalate.

The other is a male exhibiting a sex fetish in a work situation where other people are also powerless to complain about it.

It is worse than this - other people are not only powerless to complain, it is likely that if they do complain they will be sanctioned by the university and ostracized by elements of the student body.

The fetishist knows this. His actions are not brave or stunning, he is stamping down his power over other members of the university from a position of absolute safety

Many many years ago before people lost their minds to the genderwoos the man from our local library turned up at our door to collect a library book my mum had forgotten to return, dressed in women’s clothing, my mum who was at home with two small children naturally felt quite uneasy at this and called the library to complain, she was offered an apology and the bloke was never seen again. Of course that was back in the days when people understood that men dressing in women’s clothes was a red flag.

After governing body fails to reach a decision and the head of house goes on holiday, and then it’s the end of term….🥴