Movie: Twisted Sister Ah, the young, naïf days of MTV, when one expected no more from a video than bad acting and atrocious coiffures. Welcome to Twisted Sister's deathless production of "We're Not Going To Take It," a video with myriad resonances with Euripides' Bacchae. Recall that the Bacchae featured in Euripides' play are being punished for their previous religious failings. A true Bacchant--a sister in the worship of Dionsysus--maintains sôphrôsunê, but a frenzied Bacchant is a failed sister: a twisted sister. Note that the group's name is not pluralized: together, they constitute one, corporate Sister, the embodiment of Dionsysiac frenzy. Moreover, the group reveals some disturbing Bacchant traits: wild, untamed hair; a propensity to launch into song; gender ambiguity (are these womanly men or manly women?); and most important of all, an unbridled hostility towards domestic authority. In this video, Twisted Sister rails against the tyrannos figure of Dad, who, like Pentheus, treats the members of his own house (oikos) with hubris. And just as in the Bacchae, the king figure must be banished from the oikos in order to save the greater community. This accounts for the recurring leit-motiv of Dad being blown out of the house (via window, door, wall, and the like); the frenzied Bacchants will not allow the tyrannos to pollute the sacred space of the oikos. The final scene, as in the Bacchae, shows the philos of the king attempting to put him back together again: we assume the long-enduring wife will in fact be able to heal tyrannos Dad. King Pentheus is not, alas, so lucky.