Lovely person and brilliant educator

Hmm.

Here, to refresh your memory, is Matt Rattley.

UK: A male lecturer at a historic women's college in Oxford is raising concerns for wearing large prosthetic breasts on campus.

Matt Rattley, who uses they/them pronouns, has also boasted of tutoring teenage GCSE students privately.https://t.co/GROgktqwPp

— REDUXX (@reduxx) April 28, 2026

Now here is someone explaining what a fine fella Matt Rattley is and someone else saying he has the nerve to look a bit unusual. Oddly enough they’re both men.

I know Matt as a lovely person and a brilliant educator, respected by students and colleagues at Oxford. Shameful but unsurprising to see the “gender critical” crowd harass someone with a different gender presentation just trying to live and do their job. Hateful bigots https://t.co/ynkYg2lkWd

— Joe Turner (@joe_turner177) April 29, 2026

Can he be a lovely person while openly mocking women the way he does?

I don’t buy it. Yet again we go back to the thought experiments about blackface and the like. Would Joe Turner say Matt Rattley is a fine person despite the fact that he teaches students while wearing blackface?

I doubt it. I can’t know, of course, but I doubt it. One reason: we see a lot of men defending visible contempt for women and we don’t see such a lot of men defending racist mockery. I don’t think that’s just random. I think it’s a strong clue that a hell of a lot of men just do not care about visible contempt for women.

I can’t see Rattley’s joke breasts combined with rat’s nest beard as anything but a sustained show of disdain for women.