A bearded Oxford academic has been criticised for wearing giant fake breasts in public despite complaints from colleagues and eminent former students. Matt Rattley, a lecturer in biochemistry at St Hilda's College, has already attracted online controversy thanks to his bizarre appearance, which includes wearing women's clothes and makeup. Now three college graduates including a leading clinical psychologist have written to St Hilda's over concerns that Mr Rattley's behaviour 'violates women's dignity', and that it would be 'reasonable for them to feel that it creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating and offensive environment'.
Quite! So why hasn't anyone complained?
St Hilda's has received at least two more formal letters of complaint, including one from the parent of a current undergraduate, and some allege that the situation amounts to sexual harassment against female students and teachers.
Oh, they have! Good for them! Remember this as you read on...
Mr Rattley, who was appointed as a non-stipendiary lecturer in 2023, undoubtedly has his supporters at St Hilda's. But speaking on condition of anonymity, an Oxford academic who attended training events alongside Mr Rattley told The Mail on Sunday: 'I was due to attend a series of staff training sessions at Oxford with Mr Rattley. I ended up missing most of them because I found being around him so distressing.
'At the first session, he was giving a presentation. I was in the front row, so those big prosthetic boobs felt like they were in my face. I didn't know where to look.
'The worst part was that other people were behaving as though he was dressed normally. You're sitting there thinking what you're seeing is hideous and disrespectful, while everyone around you is pretending it's OK. It makes you doubt your sanity.'
That's what it's meant to do, when what you should be doing is doubting his sanity, and the saninity of the people that let him act this way in a supposedly professional setting!
Another session I attended was during the summer heatwave. Rattley was sitting with his legs apart in a miniskirt, with his underwear visible, flanked by two admiring young women – in long dresses.
Would this behaviour be accepted if not for the corrupting influence of identity politics and the trans lobbiy's takeover of every institution in the UK?
'Many of the female staff fawn over him. He's pretty intimidating because, even without his high heels, he's a very tall, imposing man.
'It does feel like sexual harassment. You feel as though you're being forced to participate in someone's sexual fetish without being given a choice.'
That's exactly what you are being forced to do, and it's not the first time - it's happened before, just not here! But I can't find the article because every search brings up this case and I'm sure there has been a case in the US identical to this one...
Another Oxford lecturer told the MoS that students and academics fear speaking out.'I privately asked a fellow at St Hilda's what, if anything, they were doing about this. She said that, as far as she knew, no student had complained, and unless and until that happened, it was very unlikely that the College would do anything.'
Yet we are told in the second paragraph that they have not received complaints? Are they lying? Well, if they will tolerate this behaviour, they clearly don't stop at lying, do they?
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