Two year old girl defends her choice of doll to cashier: She is a pretty girl, I am a pretty girl

[Quixote1818]

SOUTH CAROLINA — When 2-year-old Sophia was told she could pick out a prize for finishing her potty training, she knew just what she wanted.

She and her mother, Brandi Benner, visited a Target near their South Carolina home, where Sophia spent 20 minutes looking at all the dolls in the toy aisle.

“She kept going back to the doctor doll, because in her mind, she is already a doctor,” Benner said. “She loves giving checkups, and if you come in the house, she’ll tell you that’s the first thing you need.”

Sophia, who will be 3 in July, was so excited by her choice that she wouldn’t let go of her new doll until they reached the register to check out.

Did we mention that the doll is black and Sophia is white?

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[HockeyMom]

1. No cashier should question the choice of a customer

Period, and purely from a business perspective if nothing else.

[LiberalFighter]

2. +

[radical noodle]

3. The cashier should be fired or repremanded n/t

[GeoWilliam750]

5. Perhaps not

Tomorrow when that cashier wakes up, she will go back to her job at the register, and will probably continue to do so until the job is automated.

The little girl will hopefully become a doctor with a beautiful open mind.

Our society has already "punished" the cashier more than enough.

My compliments to the girl's parents.

[LisaM]

7. I always take these stories with a grain of salt.

It makes a nice story and the girl and doll are adorable, but I've shopped at Target many times and no one's ever commented negatively on what I'm buying. I don't necessarily believe this 100%.

[MrScorpio]

4. This little girl is a fierce warrior against white supremacist oppression at such an early age

More power to her!👍🏿

[JI7]

6. i also can't stand it when people don't let a kid get a toy for the other gender

[Ms. Toad]

10. My problem is even more basic - there is no such thing as a "toy for the other gender"

Toys are toys. Period.

I used to have that argument all the time when McDonald's had its bifurcated happy meal toys, and the cashier would ask, is it for a boy or a girl?

I even went as far as to contact corporate customer service - who insisted to me that their staff was trained to ask if the customer wanted a barbie or a hot wheels car. Given that i was NEVER asked that, I'm sure that the keys on their registers (or touch-screen button) were labeled "boy" or "girl."

[LAS14]

8. K & R

[iluvtennis]

9. Kids this age are true innocents...they learn racism and bigotry from the older ppl around them...

...if those environment "teachings" were there, we would have no racism in the world. everyone would be seen simply as a human. However, I'm not naive to think that once racism was out of the equation it would be filled with something else - like classism, religious bigotry, etc. Remember that famous experiment that was done with kids back in 60s/70s where for two weeks the blue-eyed kids were the "good ones" and treated in rewarding manner and the brown-eyed kids were the "bad ones" and rebuked. Then they turned the tables and made the brown-eyed kids the "good ones" and "blue eyed" were the "bad ones". The kids were the same, but the behavior and how the kids were treated simply because of what group they were placed in.