Actress Kirsten Dunst Subject of Outrage for Affirming Traditional Gender Roles

In her interview for the May issue of the U.K. Harper’s Bazaar magazine, Kirsten Dunst dared to be “surprisingly outspoken on the subject of gender,” and now she’s paying the price for it from angry feminists.

From the interview:

Dunst is surprisingly outspoken on the subject of gender: “I feel like the feminine has been a little undervalued,” she says. “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. And sometimes, you need your knight in shining armour. I’m sorry. You need a man to be a man and a woman to be a woman. That’s why relationships work…”

This is all Dunst had to say on gender in the relatively brief interview. Yet, pieces in response had titles liked “Kirsten Dunst Thinks That Women Should Know Their Place Is In The Home” and Kirsten Dunst Thinks Ladies In Relationships Should Wife the F**k Out. These serve to prove the stereotype of angry feminists correct. The ladies of popular feminist websites of Uproxx and Jezebel serve to prove Dunst’s words to be true. The feminine is not only “a little undervalued,” but squashed out and silenced like a pesky insect.

Feminity is not a pesky insect. God made men to be men and women to be women. He created different sexes so that we could embrace gender roles. Doesn’t society wish for us to celebrate our differences? Dunst, in saying “[y]ou need a man to be a man and a woman to be a woman. That’s why relationships work…” speaks the truth. Such a statement reflects God’s natural design of human sexuality and the complementary nature of the two sexes.

In her rant of a piece for Uproxx, Stacey Ritzen misunderstands and attacks Dunst from the beginning. Because Kirsten Dunst’s mother was a stay-at-home-mom, she understands the value in the role of being a wife and a mother. Her daughter dared to consider that to be “valuable,” having a traditional kind of mother. What has to be so wrong and feared about nurturing, especially when it is in a woman’s very nature? But, Ritzen chooses to read such comments as meaning that all women should know their place, and that it is in the home.

Ritzen also takes Dunst’s comments to mean that if relationships don’t operate in the way she thinks that they do, then they are doomed to fail. Her conclusion:

So, I guess my marriage is doomed to fail because I don’t have kids and write d**k jokes for a living and my husband is more of a cat person than a dog person. THANKS, KIRSTEN DUNST.

Erin Gloria Ryan is so angry she turns to profanity for her piece’s title in writing for Jezebel. Although it’s curious that “wif[ing]… out” would be so terrible for a woman to do, considering women end up being wives.

I’m not going to couch this much because Kirsten Dunst is not paid to write gender theory so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that she’s kind of dumb about it…

What makes Kirsten Dunst “dumb?” Is it because she disagrees with Erin Gloria Ryan? Do feminists hold the one true opinion on how women are supposed to behave?

But never mind that God created men and women different for a reason, or that we should embrace and love what makes each of our sexes unique. Perhaps you don’t believe in God. Perhaps you abhor gender roles and find them oppressive and paternalistic.

Does that give so-called feminists a pass in seeking to degrade and discredit Kirsten Dunst for her views? Are their comments pro-women? Are they even behaving like feminists?

It would seem not.

Fox News titles their piece on the matter “Kirsten Dunst sparks debate over support for traditional gender roles.”

But it doesn’t really sound like those mentioned above really want a debate. Fox also mentions tweets against the actress, which even further seek to silence her:

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.”

Women are supposed to respect each other, no matter if they disagree. To be truly pro-women means standing by all women to have the right to express themselves. It does not mean discrediting or silencing those who embrace feminity and take on another view of how women are supposed to behave.

The same goes for what it takes for women to feel that they are experiencing “empowerment and independence.”

Who says that Kirsten Dunst and those who embrace traditional gender roles aren’t feeling empowered and independent themselves? Certainly the feminists who like to claim those values for their own would not, but they hardly represent all women.