Mom scolds plane passenger for watching R-rated movie that made her son cry

This air traveler went from screen time to scream time.

A young man says he was berated by a female plane passenger for watching a violent movie that reportedly upset her son.

The 19-year-old, who did not disclose his identity, shared his story on Reddit.com’s “Am I The A–hole?” message board, asking for feedback on whether it was inappropriate to watch a violent movie during a flight.

“I had a few movies downloaded on my phone, including the second ‘Deadpool’,” the man wrote, referencing the R-rated Ryan Reynolds action flick, released in 2018.

“I was watching it on my phone with headphones in, when the part where ‘Deadpool’ gets ripped in half happens, and I can hear a (muffled) scream behind me,” he further explained. “I take out my headphones and there’s a little kid behind me, crying. He had positioned himself in a way that he could watch my screen and had watched him [the Deadpool character] get torn.”

The man went on to tell Reddit users that the boy’s mom subsequently yelled at him, telling him that he “shouldn’t be watching that kind of thing, especially in front of children.”

“I wasn’t aware anyone was watching me, and that kid would have had to force himself into that weird position to see my phone screen,” he added.

The man did not disclose the plane’s departure city nor its destination but revealed that it was a six-hour flight that took place during the day.

He guessed that the boy was about six years of age and added that he wasn’t sure whether the mom noticed the boy was watching his screen and “just let it slide until it backfired on her.”

“Am I an a–hole?” the Redditor asked.

Users mainly sided with the man, saying it was the woman’s responsibility to keep a close eye on her kid.

“Random strangers on a flight can not, and should not, police what you watch,” one declared. “Where was the mom when her kid had been watching? Why didn’t she divert their attention and keep better watch of them?”

Another sympathized with the man saying it sounded like he was trying to conceal his screen as much as possible.

However, they added that it was “weird” that airlines often put explicit movies on their screens.

“I started watching ‘Red Sparrow’ on a plane once and it got so graphic (sexually) that I shut it off,” they recalled. “I was sitting in an aisle seat and felt like half the plane could see the screen.”

“On another flight, my son (who was about eight at the time) was sitting in the row behind me with his grandmother, when I turned around and asked him what he was watching and he goes ‘Game of Thrones,’ the Redittor added, before blasting their own mother for failing to properly police what the boy was watching on his screen.