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A woman flew with Delta, expecting to have a relaxing flight. However, she looked over to her seat neighbor and noticed them doing something incredibly dangerous and a little outrageous. Saying nothing in her video, @abernathy_habit let her face speak for itself. As she panned over to her seatmate, she managed to capture the woman actively curling her hair. With what? A curling iron that she plugged into Delta’s on-flight outlets.
She then posted the clip to TikTok on Dec. 31, 2025. Many commenters asked how the woman sitting in an aisle seat wasn’t stopped by Delta’s flight crew or even banned from the aircraft. Since then, the video has garnered 3.5 million viewers.
A woman flew with Delta, expecting to have a relaxing flight. However, she looked over to her seat neighbor and noticed them doing something incredibly dangerous and a little outrageous. Saying nothing in her video, @abernathy_habit let her face speak for itself. As she panned over to her seatmate, she managed to capture the woman actively curling her hair. With what? A curling iron that she plugged into Delta’s on-flight outlets.
She then posted the clip to TikTok on Dec. 31, 2025. Many commenters asked how the woman sitting in an aisle seat wasn’t stopped by Delta’s flight crew or even banned from the aircraft. Since then, the video has garnered 3.5 million viewers.
Have you ever been doing something your entire life, only to discover years as an adult that you’ve been doing it wrong?
In a Reddit thread on the topic, users admitted to doing all sorts of things incorrectly. For example, one user said they had been putting shampoo and conditioner on in the wrong order their entire life. Another said they only just realized that many restaurants had hosts—and that they had just been walking by and seating themselves.
The last revolutionary on Earth starring Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another is a cathartic fk the system journey we knew we needed to see but never would have expected it’d look like this. The entire film is a painful metaphor for the revolution and a sign of the times we wish were not true. The outcomes all too realistic, then coupled with stellar performances, you can’t deny the pulsating energy the film contains.
Every metaphor hits different, like a painful knife in the side, but one that gets cleaned, wrapped, and set to heal nicely. It is evidently clear that the architect of our revolution was born from the master plans of our oppressors.
Every beat is a stark and accurate portrayal of where we are in the world today and how fragile and fabricated the system is, and the real-world consequences that can and do unfold in unrest. On the real, One Battle After Another is a well-told story about a revolution that endures and how we need to stay ready so you don’t have to get ready. You walk away from the film virtually unscathed, but the scar lives on with a wild story to tell.
But nothing compares to the constant vibration of satisfying rage that is acknowledged by the depiction of America’s obsession with Black women, which is the winding road we follow throughout the whole film.
No spoilers for now- we’ll give a hoottie hoo when spoilers are about to be spilt.
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
For gentle context, One Battle After Another follows the radical freedom group aptly titled “The French 75.” Named after the famous French 75mm gun, or “canon”, capable of firing 15 rounds a minute. The notorious ‘canon’ was used by the French to defeat the Germans in Paris in World War I. It is also commonly known as a strong ass gin cocktail. The gun itself was said to be a symbol of hope against world terror, making the name a perfect example of the film itself. Extremely irreverent and packing a punch.
The French 75 are freedom fighters equipped with communications intelligence, bomb and pyrotechnic specialists, strategists, and a…let’s say not ‘well oiled’ but heavy-hitting machine. Teyana Taylor’s character Perfidia Beverly Hills is a valiant member of this group and a descendant of a long line of revolutionaries. She’s also a bit of a loose cannon. She is unpredictable, strong-willed, and carries a burden in her eyes that feels all too familiar. From the beginning, she is paired with the arson or explosives expert of the operation, Bob Fergueson, Leo DiCaprio’s character. They are an unlikely couple, but you think in your head, yea – makes sense.
The group also has leaders like the one and only Avon Barksdale or Wood Harris playing strategist Laredo in the field. Actor and rapper Junglepussy graces the screen playing, I want to say…herself? We have our strong risk management professional Deandra, played by the real one, Regina Hall.
Every person plays their part and knows their role. There are clear lines to hold and a coded language that, when uttered properly, literally keeps people alive.
The best part is, it’s messy AF! It feels like at any minute the whole operation could fall apart, but you know it never will. The strings are flexible and seemingly haphazard, but its fabric is vibranium, and the fire is an endless blue flame that society loves to keep fanning.
This group is freeing captives from ICE detention centers, robbing banks, threatening governments, and following TF through. This revolution is what it looks like when fear has fueled you for so long and the world has finally made you choose violence.
The Revolution Will Not Give Your Mouth Sex Appeal
Of course the free-willed and stubbornness of Perfidia Beverly Hills is the catalyst to the next phase of prolonged battles. Aside from what we will call our protagonists of the story, our antagonist, aka ‘the system’ or ‘they’ or ‘the man’, is personified by Colonel Steven J Lockjaw – yes, that is a villain name for sure. Colonel Lockjaw is played expertly by powerhouse Sean Penn. As you watch him play a racist, Black loving/hating, proud boy, you can’t help but remember he literally played Harvey Milk. That aside, Colonel Lockjaw’s character is the embodiment of a society that takes all that it perceives power to be and makes it their sole purpose and inevitably their personality – insecurities in all. He is watching over and enforcing immigration, among many other things. But when he has a run-in with Perfidia, his eyes are opened.
The idea of the phrase ‘one battle after another’ lends itself to the sustained pace of the film. While many battles are going on at once, it truly feels like one long battle that links everyone together. Music plays a significant role in this regard. Seldom do you hear silence or come across moments of stillness. That isn’t to say the movie is cluttered or unfocused. Not at all. It’s ordered chaos, with the music sustaining you through each beat and obstacle to overcome.
The Revolution Will Not Be Brought to You by the Schaefer Award Theatre
The actor performances are the lungs of the film. Sitting glued to the screen, you could easily forget to breathe, but watching Leo, Benicio, Regina, and Chase Infiniti, who plays character Willa, gives you those moments to inhale. Whether it’s through necessary comic relief or the feeling of safety their presence conveys, it makes each battle in the film worth sustaining.
Leo DiCaprio goes all in as “The Dude” revolutionary Bob Ferguson. A joint between his lips and frustration in his brow, with an unwavering love for a daughter and dedication to a resistance he chooses to be chained to. Benicio Del Toro as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos reminds us what community really means. The risks we need to take to keep each other safe are just preparation for the life we deserve to live. He is calculated, calm, and literally reminds us all to breathe.
Even our villain, Colonel Lockjaw, played by Sean Penn gives purpose to the madness. His evil is a product of the very system he worships and will do anything to keep in line. He plays Lockjaw with a stoic, frantic insanity. He is fueled by the prospect of joining the Christmas Adventurers Club. A very obvious nod to the far-right Christian agenda to “Save Christmas” or put “Christ back in Christmas” as it’s often heard. When you first hear it in the film, you chuckle, but also wince with pain, because it’s just not far enough from the truth for you to full-belly laugh.
The setting is a tortured America. The one we are living in today yet somehow feels dystopian. Maybe it’s projection – we wish it were slightly different than our reality, but we’ve been in these streets, we know people affected by the very ideals those in power have carried out. This is Paul Thomas Anderson’s (PTA) specialty. The same Director who brought us Punch Drunk Love and Magnolia. It’s a realistic world that takes us even deeper into our own realities. It’s the what-if of speculative fiction. Gil Scott Heron’s Revolution Will Not Be Televised is cleverly the sacred text and code language of the resistance. The poetic hairs on my forearms stand up at this device and immediately want to adopt this, so we know who to trust at all times. Each mechanism in the film is a catered choice and greatly appreciated.
With all of that said, it’s only logical that the underlying tone is the obsession and mistreatment of Black women in America.
Now, if you really want to know how I feel – go watch the film and return to this section because…
I am spilling all the spoilers from here on out that can be spilt.
And No Pictures of Hairy-armed Women Liberationists
It is no secret that the abhorrent way the United States of America treats us Black women, past to present. I do mean that in the overgeneralized way. The Man, The System, The colonizers, the oppressors, whatever you want to call it, have historically used Black women to create and sustain themselves and given us no graces. One Battle After Another captures the raw essence of exhaustion, inherent responsibility, tortured existence, and generational trauma that a Black woman walks with on the daily. And on top of it all, the sick obsession and need to have power over and control a Black woman. With all of that, the film does provide a wealth of catharsis on the back end, leaving you feeling somehow less crazy and more seen. Don’t worry, I will explain.
It all begins with Teyana Taylor’s character, Perfidia Beverly Hills. She is boisterous, fighting to be unbothered, she is enraged freedom with a gun. In the first scene, she is tasked with securing Colonel Lockjaw himself to prevent him from interfering with their rescue mission. She proceeds to instruct him to get hard while holding a gun to his head. Her face dripping with a satisfying revenge and desire to literally fk the system. Having this kind of power excites her but does not rule her by any means. Lockjaw, on the other hand, the twinkle in his eye is absolutely ancestral. He is almost compelled to be aroused. His racist proclivity has birthed a fetishism he didn’t know could be real until he came face to face with it.
This is how America sees the Black woman. We’re loathed for the magnificence we possess. We remind oppressors of their misgivings. That the world was created on our backs, as laborers, breeders, caretakers, cooks, nannies, nurses, and eternal fighters. With all the strife, we still remain resilient and excel in science, art, beauty, finance, and so much more and continue to innovate. This is a hard pill to swallow for people who feel power is tied to the literal and metaphorical enslavement of another. Thus, the creation of an attraction to the innate power of a Black woman. The idea that we are strong in the face of [name anything here] makes a strange attraction to the ability that someone who uses forcible power does not possess.
The next time Perfidia encounters Lockjaw, they in fact do the deed. Perfidia, whose life partner is Leo DiCaprio, Bob Ferguson, a white man on the other side of the system. A “Gringo Zapata,” as Benicio’s character puts it. Some may see this as degrading to the Black woman, watching her be with only white men throughout the film. But this isn’t a rom-com where the only way someone will be invested is if the Black lead falls for the strapping blonde. This is an assertion of power. Perfidia has been trained in her blood to resist, to use her power to empower, and this is a perfect display of what a Black woman who feels freedom is hers for the taking can do.
And Women Will Not Care if Dick Finally Got Down with Jane
I particularly enjoy this for the evolution of Black women in film as well. We are constantly either holding up someone else by being the best friend, or explicitly there to show our struggle, or being exceptional as the talented 10th. Only recently have we been allowed to show some of the mess. Creators like Robin Thede, Issa Rae, Maya Rudolph, and Quinta Brunson have allowed us to be human and imperfect. When Perfidia finds herself pregnant, she is changed; her world becomes even more unbearable. The world has always been about something bigger than her, and a child makes that even more apparent. To boot, there is a chance this baby is literally the child of her oppressor, creating a vicious cycle that is a Black woman’s ancestral history.
When the mess is out there, she is caught acting out of order during a routine bank robbery. In captivity, she becomes a part of the villainy. When sh*it hits the fan, Perfidia names names, and the French 75 scatters as they have planned for situations such as this. The system attempts to confine her and use her, and she is too proud and free to let that ever happen. She’s now in the wind.
Fifteen years later. The literal progeny of the resistance and the system is being raised by the gringo zapata, who is what white guilt looks like when it does make a fair try. In a movie where the lead star is white, it is so Black though. For me – it truly felt like American Blackness was the main character. It wasn’t a period film, it wasn’t a crack open of oppression, it was a true story of what white America has made. Maybe it’s time for the gringo zapatas to do the work.
Because Black People Will Be in the Street Looking for a Brighter Day
Which brings me to Regina Hall and Chase Infiniti – our Deandra and Willa. Deandra is the walking sacrifice of Black women. She devotes her life to the resistance and is tasked with the safety and security of its most crucial members. The exhaustion in her face resonates inside my bones. The inherent responsibility she has over so many years, and the love and devotion she has to freedom means she is in this for life.
When Colonel comes looking for his ‘halfbreed’ as the Christmas Adventurers put it, Deandra is activated. She has to intercept Willa at a school dance and begin a series of actions to get her to a safe point. When they reach their destination, a remote convent, and cover for the additional members of the resistance. The head nun speaks about getting basically too old for this shit. Even she has a limit, but sees in Deandra’s eyes she’ll always have a little flame lit, ready to fight, no matter how spent she may be. This is the eternal flame a Black woman must always keep lit. We don’t have the ability to give up. Our blood is made of traces of kerosene and pulls energy from an ancestral place. It is painful and exhausting. These are the moments you feel most seen… and then breathe.
The Revolution Will Be Live
Willa is the greatest metaphor of them all. Born into a resistance without the guidance of her Black and maternal figure, raised by the well-meaning intentions and also a direct blood connection to the oppressor that maintains the system she is meant to fight. She has all of the skills, the tenacity, the intrinsic ability, but parts of her untethered. This makes her equal parts something new and old. Confronted with the truth about her mother and her father, she has to decide who she is going to be.
The feeling we as Black women have when we must exist in the past, present, and future at all times. We feel completely out of control, but know the power we hold – so concurrently, everything is possible. We have to decide who we want to be, how much mess we have to keep, and what composure to convey and when. There is a reason that America is obsessed. The belief that we are an anomaly, that what we do must be contained. Truth is, it is fking magical, it is a reverberating energy that we continue to evolve. Be obsessed – but also leave us TF alone.
One Battle After Another is now streaming on HBO Max.
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Time to hop in the Wayback Machine, and go back to 2013. That was the year Game of Thrones’ Red Wedding shocked everyone, and we were all invested in the latest Hunger Games. And, the year Miley Cyrus shed her last bit of Hannah Montana innocence at the MTV VMAS. Wearing a revealing outfit, she performed with Robin Thicke to his big, sexually suggestive hit that year, “Blurred Lines.” The world collectively clutched its pearls. All kidding aside, people really freaked out, and the internet responded in kind. One video response from the YouTube channel AriesHeadFilms had Captain Kirk’s Star Trek crew receive a transmission from Earth of the infamous performance, and the result is hilarious.
To be fair, Miley’s Chuck E. Cheese-inspired outfit and hairdo kind of do indeed look like something an alien would wear on Gene Roddenberry’s iconic series. So it somehow all fits. The scenes in this video are mostly edited together from random bridge shots of the starship Enterprise from old Star Trek episodes. Chekov losing his mind is from the episode “The Tholian Web.” The crew covering their ears in pain is from “The Immunity Syndrome.” But the best part comes at the end, when the Miley of it all destroys the Enterprise in a gigantic explosion. That part actually comes from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and not the TV series, but why nitpick?
Back in 2013, pundits were saying that this performance would end Miley Cyrus’ career as a pop superstar. They said she’d finally “gone too far.” But what do pundits know? Usually nothing. Miley has only released even more hits since then, including her 2023 megahit, “Flowers.” But this video edit is a fun time capsule back to a time when it felt like the sky wasn’t falling every single day, and Miley Cyrus just twerking suggestively seemed like the end of the world.
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