As someone who thinks 'everything is up for grabs, nothing is sacred, let's hear your best argument', I'm a bit dismayed that we seem to be having an argument about whether male academics harassing female students by wearing huge false breasts to work is a Bad Thing or not. ...

@runthinkwrite Zero evidence Mr Rattley has harassed or intends to harrass any of his students.This is your judgment. In fact he is reputed to be well liked by his students.More fun than your average chem tutor? Stop trying to make a moral mountain out of a pair of ill fitting plastic bosombas.

@harriet48293 @runthinkwrite The behavior is harassment in and of itself. No woman's going to get close to that! Instructors were required to have office hours back when I was a student - but no woman would ever have used that access had he been an instructor.

@k_salberta @runthinkwrite As a contemporary woman, Mr Rattley, in his ridiculous get up, wouldn't phase me for a nanosecond. In fact, I'd rather like to meet him - and offer some sartorial advice. He could possibly teach me something about his subject - chemistry.

@harriet48293 @k_salberta Your particular eccentric view here is irrelevant, politically, ethically, and legally. Sorry.

@runthinkwrite @k_salberta Prove to me that Mr Rattley has harrassed and intimidated his students - and I'll listen. Do you always dismiss people who disagree with you as - eccentric? Might you be a little old-fashioned in your views?

@runthinkwrite @harriet48293 @k_salberta Thus spake the Professor of Irony.