Thu. April 10
Kirsten Dunst supports traditional gender roles and ruffled some Hollywood feathers
From Fox News:
While most of Hollywood’s leading ladies share their feminist values of empowerment and independence, Kirsten Dunst seems to have a more traditional perspective when it comes to gender roles.
“I feel like the feminine has been a little undervalued… We all have to get our own jobs and make our own money, but staying at home, nurturing, being the mother, cooking – it’s a valuable thing my mum created,” Dunst told this month’s edition ofHarper’s Bazaar in the U.K.
“And sometimes, you need your knight in shining armor. I’m sorry. You need a man to be a man and a woman to be a woman. That’s why relationships work…”
Wait. Stay at home and cook for the kids? Cue the feminist backlash.
“Kirsten Dunst has continued to be somewhat of an insufferable person, as evidenced by this interview she recently gave in which she has some very important opinions on gender roles,” Stacey Ritzen wrote on the pop culture website Uproxx in an article titled “Kirsten Dunst Thinks That Women Should Know Their Place Is In The Home.”
And Erin Gloria Ryan, writing for the feminist website Jezebel in a piece titled“Kirsten Dunst Thinks Ladies In Relationships Should Wife the F**k Out,” referred to Dunst as an “actress and blonde who looks good in clothes and has a new movie coming out soon,” and who has “some thoughts on how women best act in relationships.”
“Kirsten Dunst is not paid to write gender theory so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that she’s kind of dumb about it,” Ryan wrote.
The 31-year-old Dunst’s words have also generated some heated emotions in the Twitterverse.
“She should just keep quiet. I wasn’t aware Kirsten Dunst could be more unlikable,” wrote one. Another tweeted: “no, just no” in response to the interview, and another observed that the “Spider-Man” star can be added to “the list of famous women who should never be allowed to talk near young girls. Ever.”
But while many clearly disagree with Dunst, others say the reformed Hollywood party girl may actually be onto something.
“Feminists claim to be pro-woman, but they only support ‘correct’ choices and decisions. But Kirsten’s views are timeless,” Katie Yoder of the socially conservative Media Research Center told FOX411. “Femininity has lost its meaning. Our culture and media teach women that success means running after careers and money. Instead, a pro-woman society should emphasize a woman’s importance and worth, no matter her decision in how to live out her life.”
