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Hubs and I stopped at the dollar store earlier to pick up a couple odds and ends. While we were looking at baby wipes, a lady and her young daughter started looking at the diapers nearby. We struck up a conversation, and it turns out they were looking for diapers that might fit a doll the little girl was carrying.
We met up again at checkout, where the lady and her daughter were in line behind us. As the cashier bagged our items, the lady behind us struck up the same conversation with her. Cue the cashier going into a discussion about how "little girls shouldn't play with dolls because of all that sexist stuff, you know?"
We didn't say anything because our daughter does have dolls. But she also has cars, dinosaurs, and even a whoopie cushion. The only limits we put on her toys are for practical reasons (choking hazard, stepping-on-hazard, etc). Some of her toys are hand-me-downs from her older, male cousin but most of them are just because she likes them. We bought her Minion shoes out of the boys' section because she likes them. She has a toy police car because my grandpa is a police officer and she absolutely LOVES him. The whoopie cushion... well, that was originally for Daddy's amusement but once she discovered what it did, we couldn't get it away from her. Knowing these things, we couldn't justify a response to the cashier. We just couldn't.
Hubs and I stopped at the dollar store earlier to pick up a couple odds and ends. While we were looking at baby wipes, a lady and her young daughter started looking at the diapers nearby. We struck up a conversation, and it turns out they were looking for diapers that might fit a doll the little girl was carrying.
We met up again at checkout, where the lady and her daughter were in line behind us. As the cashier bagged our items, the lady behind us struck up the same conversation with her. Cue the cashier going into a discussion about how "little girls shouldn't play with dolls because of all that sexist stuff, you know?"
We didn't say anything because our daughter does have dolls. But she also has cars, dinosaurs, and even a whoopie cushion. The only limits we put on her toys are for practical reasons (choking hazard, stepping-on-hazard, etc). Some of her toys are hand-me-downs from her older, male cousin but most of them are just because she likes them. We bought her Minion shoes out of the boys' section because she likes them. She has a toy police car because my grandpa is a police officer and she absolutely LOVES him. The whoopie cushion... well, that was originally for Daddy's amusement but once she discovered what it did, we couldn't get it away from her. Knowing these things, we couldn't justify a response to the cashier. We just couldn't.
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