My childhood Heroes

Hello Nicole!
How come you never told me about this?
Topp Twins movie trailer

When my sister and I were growing up we had an obsession with The Topp twins, (for those of you outside NZ, The Topp Twins are a comedic, lesbian singing duo and yes they really are twins, awesome!) every Saturday morning we would be at our friends house and us four (Me, my sister, Kylie and Alana) would watch the video of The Topp Twins tv special at least once if not twice. And they had a pool! We choose The Topp Twins over the pool every time. (Incidentally once in a thunder storm our mums lets us run round around the pool, get really cold and then jump in and pretend it was a spa, so much for parental control, I suspect mum was warm inside drinking wine)

In fact we watched the video so much that it had those static lines running across the bottom of the screen after about 6 months. Yes it was a long obsession, it was our Grease and I’m not sure it was entirely appropriate for young girls, but I think Mum was trying to install feminist ways in us early on, unfortunately for my husband worked.

It must have been the half-lesbian in me but I can’t tell you how much we loved The Topp Twins, I remember once Mum went to one of their concerts, we were outraged she wouldn’t take us. She said it would be smoky and we would be up late. (By the way a classic parenting trick of my mothers was when she went to a restaurant, she didn’t get a babysitter, she made us sleep under the table, I know what your saying you can’t sleep under a table in a crowded restaurant, even as a child I knew that, so mostly we just hung out under the table trying to avoid the chewing gum gettting stuck to our hair) So you can see the staying up late excuse carried no dice with us. Anyway she went without us, my mother was not one for compromise, but she did bring us back an autograph. We were beside ourselves, we pressed the autograph really flat between the pages of a book and treasured it. We were two girls under 10 and the most exciting thing we could imagine was an autograph from two singing lesbians, I’ll let you analyse that.

So after watching the movie preview I went on youtube and saw some footage from the tv special we used to watch and I had a good old sing a long. You see this is what you have the time to do when you are unemployed, you can relive childhood memories. Anyway my favourite song is still Untouchable girls.

Let’s just review some of the kick arse lyrics
We’re untouchable, untouchable, untouchable girls (goes on like this for a while so I’ll skip a bit of this)
We’re stroppy, we’re aggressive, we’ll take over the world
We don’t let anybody touch our brains
We won’t ever, ever plug into the mains
And we are overtaking on a single lane
We’re untouchable, untouchable girls
We live in a world that doesn’t care too much
You’ve got to stand up, you’ve got to have guts
And we are untouchable but we touch
We’re untouchable, untouchable girls da da da dun !

Words to live by ladies

Link of awesome 80’s feminist song here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aK3oJrcPL8