Cossomby, "So if you want to be pedantic, -ize is the traditional Australian spelling, not a new Americanism"

History of the changed spelling
Convinced that many who voted Labor were poor spellers and like all Leftists a patronising SOB who believed he always knew what was best for others, Gough Whitlam interfered in the new edition of the Australian Government Publishing Service's 'Style Manual', decreeing that 'programme' must be 'program', 'z' was to be replaced with 's' and later, that all federal guvvy publications were to be 'non-sexist' and the male nouns and pronouns had to be done away with.

The AGPS's talented few working on the Style Manual put together mock editions of government publications demonstrating how foolish, expensive and user unfriendly Gough's non-sexist language would be. It was to be to no avail.

The Government Printing Office was under AGPS and the whole shebang was under the new Department of the Media. Gough, who upon becoming Prime Minister had been converted to Fabianism and that along with his already affirmed International Socialist bent had realised the cleverness of the Marxists' 'the personal is political' and the philosophy of language and its uses for socialism. Gough even had a large truck, a semitrailer 'library' that was to carry The Word of his government to all Aussies, everywhere. Just in case they were not noticing the revolution he and his men and WOMYN, were thrusting forward with (and while throwing out babies with the bathwater).

The truck failed to get going but it all cost a packet.

He did other things such as putting a scrotum back on that red roo and on the colour coat of arms it displays a red blush of sexual maturity (and activity) on its chest. Definitely hetero and ready to mount the nearest female or few. The previous gay stance affecting its arm (yes Gough commented on that) was changed.

Very wild and chaotic days with new public service agencies and QANGOS popping up like mushrooms.

Monkey nuts, Comrade?

For God sake people, read what the man said. He isn't advocating legalising the abduction and rape of women on private property. He's advocating policies he thinks will reduce the incidence of rape. His ideas are a little screwy but not evil.

mhaze,

No-one is listening.

Political correctness decrees that 180degree misinterpretations are the order of the day.

I am reasonably certain that the young fellow was trying his arm at satire. Maybe poor satirists should be flogged with a hard copy of their their own work.

Anyhow, as Leunig and Mem Fox found years ago, satire and honest comment are rewarded with censure in PC Oz. Now some of the radfems of the Eighties are almost apologising for their dreadful treatment of Leunig and Mem Fox, as the now very comfortably well-to-do feminists strive for social legitimacy on Sydney's North Shore. Hey, they ARE better than other women, right?, just look at those shoes and the cafes they frequent.

The harsh Oz Political Correctness is so systemic and comprehensive that few of the public might always realise and recognise its use, and everyone stoops to genuflect and comply, or else!

The ABC is a $1.3billion p.a. marketer and policeman of PC. PS pervades the education system from Kindy on and before that there is the ABC's ever-helpful to PC, Play School and more.

Mhaze,
Not exactly, Roosh wrote that article as satire and nowhere does he advocate rape, he suggests that rape laws should not apply on private property the thinking being that women would be more careful about who they went home with if there was no legal recourse if the sexual encounter turned bad.
Pretty much all that Pick Up Artist garbage is geared toward empowering asocial men to approach degenerate women, that is to say give them the tricks of the trade used by degenerate men so they can also bed loose women.
As I said, it's all horrible, his "activism" is a scam and he's a narcissistic scumbag.

None the less, 'program' is the earlier English spelling and 'programme' is a French word; as I said the USA is a repository of English spellings
We don't use 'doctour' anymore, but 'doctor' instead; 99.99% of the 'our' nouns in current English are taken from the French.

Guess why the US army salutes like our sailors?

I don't think Aly wants this guy to speak because it would make Islam look bad & he is a moslem.