First off is this item I ripped from an airline safety card on a flight from Texas...I think it was United or American. Anyway, what immediately struck me was the kid. Notice what a blob of meat he is. Notice how his arms hang lifelessly, yet he has the energy to point his left foot towards the overhead compartment. In fact, it's almost as if he's paralyzed except for a playful left foot. His right foot just dangles there, but somehow it's in contrast to the rest of his body. This kid is a mess. He's all over the place! He's in the middle of a life threatening situation and he can't even look the woman (not his mother) sitting next to him in the eye!
I have a theory. In much the same way that Chief smothers Mac with a pillow as a mercy killing in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, that what's happening here. This woman was seated next to this drooling blob of young meat when the cabin depressurized and all the oxygen was sucked out. A flight attendant came by and strapped the mask onto his all but inert face. Seeing an opportunity to do a good deed, the woman is removing the mask, so that the child can end it's miserable and useless existence.
I mean, look at his clothes! That powder blue golf shirt with brown slacks and salmon socks?! On a kid? Jesus Christ! I can't say enough bad things about this. I'm sorry.

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