In the eyes of all two year olds, their parents are not just their heroes but essentially their everything. Though they would imitate their parents every action and behaviour, it does not necessarily automatically mean that it's the be-all and end-all of it.

Such as the case of a two-year-old boy from Florida who seems to dote on everything his mother wears. Yes, even pink headbands. To most people, this would look cute. But not to a man who lost his cool and demeanor over a toddler who was wearing pink headbands.

Kaite Vyktoriah of Polk County, Fla happened to bring her son Dexter and two other children to Walmart to buy some much needed stuff.

Then, perhaps bored, little Dexter later took his fancy on his mom's pink headband and wore it on his head.

Two-year-old U.S. Boy Assaulted, Called a ‘Faggot’ for Wearing Mum’s Pink Headband

Some people at Walmart did even find the look cute.

"As we passed through the produce section, two teenage girls began giggling and one of them asked, 'Is that a boy or a girl?' Ms Vyktoriah recalled on her Facebook account.

"He's a boy," was her reply as the proud mum smiled from the girls to her son.

The teenage girls continued to giggle as the mother continued to look adoringly at her son.

"The fact that he was wearing a cute girly headband made him feel good, and he was charming all the old ladies by waving like a little pageant prince," the 31-year-old Davenport mother and owner of AMotherThing.com said.

Then, she literally jumped to her feet when she heard a booming voice in the background that said, "That's a boy?!"

When Ms Vyktoriah replied yes, without too much fanfare, the man yanked off the headband from Dexter's head. It was then thrown to the bottom of the shopping cart.

It didn't end there. Ms Vyktoriah alleged the still unidentified man cuffed the 2-year-old boy's head and said, "You'll thank me later, little man!"

The shocked mother retaliated back. "If you touch my son again, I will cut your damn arms off."

"Your son is a fucking faggot. He'll get shot for it one day."

"That's undeniably horrible," Adriana Velez from the blog The Stir wrote. "However you feel about little boys in pink headbands, you just do not touch other people's children, you don't pull articles of clothing off their bodies, and you certainly don't call them a slur and tell them they'll get shot someday - which sounds awfully close to a threat, actually. All of this is unacceptable, uncivilized behavior."

Despite the large number of eyewitnesses, Ms Vyktoriah said no one volunteered support or consolation.

"[My husband] Mark and I are both completely supportive of love in all forms. Be you gay, straight, bisexual, transsexual or polygamous, it is YOUR business. I don't judge, and I don't try and change you," she wrote in her blog.

"And if one or both of my kids grow up to realize they are any of these things, it will not change a thing about how I feel toward them."

"But right now, the fact that homophobia is so rampant, that gay marriage is still seen as dirty because homosexuals are "lesser" somehow and don't deserve to have the same rights as straight folk, that people like that man in Walmart even EXIST makes me fear for my kids and their futures."

"While we may accept and support whoever our kids turn out to be, I am scared beyond words at what it would mean for them if they ARE gay. Why should anyone have to live in fear because they fall in love with someone that you or someone else doesn't agree with? Why should mothers and fathers of gay kids have to have an extra layer of terror at night because they know that the world at large is against their child?"