Random Rant: Where 'Sister My Sister', The Veronicas and Archie Comics Are All Just Wholesome Entertainment

Are you bored?

Do me a favor then and Google images of 'The Veronicas'.  You've most likely have never heard of them before.  They're twins from Australia that formed a rock band in 1999 by that tittle.  I actually kinda dig their music and was rocking out to them on YouTube earlier having just discovered their existence today. In the one YouTube video I watched is a still picture of them smashing their boobs together in an embrace.  This is not something most heterosexual women do.  It's something lesbians and bisexual women do.  Because they like their own boobs as well as the boobs of others and they want to smash their boobs into somebody else's boobs.  But the picture disturbed me nonetheless because, they're siblings and even though it's cool to boob smash with strangers, I don't really see how it's cool to boob smash with your twin.

I'm sure it's most men's wet dream--if you want to buy into the subscribed sexuality of manhood that's been sold to you, sure--when two hot female twins smash boobs but the ick factor kicks in for me because it seems blatantly incestuous, which for my level of ethos is bothersome.  So either Jessica and Lisa Origliasso are just really close or they're really close.  Which could be a total possibility if they are both narcissistic.  Another possibility is that it's a marketing gimmick, which also ups my ick factor.  It's like, why'd ya'll bother picking up a microphone to sing?  Why not just do the sensible thing and get into porn like the Barbie Twins?

It wouldn't be the first time two sisters fell in love though.

The movie 'Sister My Sister' is all-woman production set in provincial France in the early 1930's and it's a really good fucking movie, so good, I won't spoil the ending but it was based on a true incident that occurred in Le Mans, France in 1933 called the Papin murder case.  The murder shocked the country at the time, and there was much speculation about the sisters, including allegations that they were having an incestuous lesbian affair with each other.  The movie confirms those speculations and renders their forbidden love with such delicate tenderness that I still can vividly recall the tale of the older sister telling the younger sister how they managed to contract matching scars and the observation made by the old gypsy woman.

Christine and Lea Papin weren't twins or sell-out musicians though, they were French maids who worked 14 hour days and only got one half day off a week for themselves.  Plus their father was alleged to have raped their elder sister, Emilia.  So their story is one that I can understand. 

I don't understand Jessica and Lisa Origliasso picture poses though and it disturbs me.  On a personal level.  It's one thing to be in love with your sister and quite another to be in love with someone who's not only related to you but also looks exactly like you.  So even if Jessica and Lisa have no incestuous narcissistic lesbian intentions towards one another, the fact that it's certainly implied -- is disturbing.  Why even imply something like that?  Especially to--what?--sell a few more records to the boys that wish the Barbie Twins were singing instead of doing porn?  It doesn't make sense.

This part doesn't make sense either, Archie Comics launched legal action against the group 'The Veronicas' for trademark infringement in relation to the character Veronica Lodge, in an attempt to stop them from using the name.  Archie comics had asked Warner Music Group to hand over all publicity rights and to pay $200 million in damages.  In a statement with New York Times Michael I. Silberkleit, chairman of Archie Comics Publications, Inc. commented:

"The importance is the image of Archie, which everybody knows is good, clean, wholesome stuff, [...].  Preventing unauthorized use of the name will protect both the characters and customers who have paid for licensing rights [...]."

A settlement was reached that included a cross-promotion deal, including an appearance in an issue of Veronica Lodge's comic book.  The issue (#167) featured a card with a code allowing a free download of their single "4ever" in MP3 form.   A few months later, Archie and Friends (#100) featured The Archies meeting The Veronicas.  The next issue of Archie and Friends (#101) also featured The Veronicas, with Archie as their biggest fan.

I grew up reading Archie and Betty and Veronica.  So I seriously cannot believe that Michael I. Silberkleit said that the image of Archie is something of which "...everybody knows is good, clean, wholesome stuff..."  because if trying to make up your mind over if you're in love with Betty or Veronica while making out with not only both of them but other girls, err 'love interests', from comic to comic is good, clean, wholesome stuff--can somebody please explain to me what bad, dirty, unwholesome stuff is?  Veronica and Betty would tramp about in bikinis and mini skirts in every other issue. Veronica couldn't make up her mind between Archie and Reggie and a troupe of other boys from comic to comic.  Midge went back and forth between Moose and Reggie.  Hell, even Betty would stray from Archie's side occasionally to build plot.  And lets look at Veronica Lodge herself, what got Mr. Silberkleit all up in arms in the first place over the Origliasso's naming their band her first name that actually had nothing to do with Archie Comics, she's a money grubbing, self-centered, spoiled, rich bitch that relies on daddy, Mr. Lodge, for money to afford her all her ridiculous and over priced parties and clothes.  She's not a role model, trust me, I was always rooting for Betty as Archie's main love interest.  Archie Comics is an unrealistic idealized portrayal of borderline promiscuous indecisive teenagers and I actually LOVE Archie Comics.  But calling it good, clean, wholesome stuff is just saying the naked emperor has a nice robe on.

Now you might have made it this far and even Googled images of The Veronicas and you're probably like wth are you talking about Munchausen Syndrome (mainly because the boob smashing pic is a still in a YouTube video and doesn't seem to appear as an image on Google's server), these pictures look fine.  Then I'll tell you to do, what I told my boyfriend to do, Google Images 'Hanson' and 'Spice Girls' and then do a little compare and contrast and you'll see why I'm wondering why Jessica Origliasso doesn't pull a Sting and sing "Don't Stand So Close To Me" to her twin sister Lisa.

Maybe none of this matters but my point is, that we're all victims of imagery and if we don't step back sometimes and question those images and their social connotations or at the very least, merely just think about them and what they mean then we have a passive intellect that's falling us. 

I don't believe in absolute truths, I do believe in situational ethics but I still believe in ethics and strive to be as ethical as possible in my day to day going-ons in the various situations I find myself in.

Is it unethical to be a lesbian?--no, I don't think so.

Is it unethical to sleep with your sister?--I personally wouldn't want to sleep with my sister if I had one, but if she was my twin and just as cool as me?--sure, maybe I wouldn't date around.

Does that mean the future holds for us the human race the possibility of us all becoming image conscious freaks to the point of being SO narcissistic that we'll just clone ourselves to have someone to fuck and hold and love?--maybe, but it'll all be done in the name of good, clean, wholesome entertainment I'm sure.