Meganorks Man

And what he tells us about the limits of free expression

In light of my previous article about the nuclear core around which transactivism is built, namely male perversion, it was interesting to watch the recent online furore over Matt Rattley, an Oxford academic I dubbed Meganorks Man. Rattley is a tutor in biochemistry at St Hilda’s College (which in 2008 became the last of the women’s colleges to start admitting men) who turns up to tutorials and academic meetings wearing a prosthetic that goes from the neck to mid-torso and includes outsize fake breasts. He wears this with low-cut dresses, lipstick, painted nails and a fearsome beard.

I don’t know why Rattley wears enormous rubber breasts. I don’t have a window into any man’s soul. But for some men who do this, it’s definitely part of a fetish. To take just one recent example, photographs and videos of Bryon Noem, husband of Kristi, Donald Trump’s former Homeland Security secretary, published by the Daily Mail show him posing and pouting while wearing colossal fake breasts. The article claims that Noem sent around $25,000 to women he interacted with online, expressed a desire to become a “trans bimbo” and told a friend that he wanted “huge, huge ridiculous boobs”. If the photos are genuine and the claims accurate, this is the fetish of “bimbofication” — becoming sexually excited at the idea of being turned into a brainless, exaggeratedly feminine human doll.