During an interview with Harper’s Bazaar to promote her latest film, “The Two Faces of January,” actress Kirsten Dunst poked a nasty hornet’s nest with her comments about traditional gender roles. “I feel like the feminine has been a little undervalued,” she told the fashion magazine. “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 mom created.”

The leading lady of the Spider Man trilogy really got slammed for saying, “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…”

I guess we shouldn’t be surprised — the feminist blogosphere and Twitter exploded.

One feminist thinker wrote a piece entitled,” Kirsten Dunst Thinks That Women Should Know Their Place Is In The Home.” No she doesn’t. She’s made 30 movies.
But a lot of women do prefer to be at home with their kids. According to a new study by Pew Research Center, stay-at-home motherhood is growing. Twenty-nine percent of mothers with children under 18 don’t work outside the home. That’s up from 23 percent in 1999.

And it’s not just wealthy women. Writer Arianne Sommer told FOX News. “People nowadays have to make a living and simply can’t afford the luxury of spending the entire day at home.” But most stay-at-home mothers are actually middle class. Data from the latest Census show that 65 percent of women who stay at home with kids under 18 live in homes where the family income is less than $75,000 a year.

Katherine Connell at National Review wrote that “for many families, it makes economic sense for a parent to provide full-time child care rather than paying someone else to do it, given the cost of day care, transportation, and taxes on additional family income.”

Add to that the fact that having a parent home to raise a kid full time is a good way to help ensure that child is healthy, physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Feminism tends to foster selfishness in women. And, for the most part, selfish women aren’t great mothers…..or great spouses. Maybe that’s why so many relationships in Hollywood don’t work.

Kirsten Dunst’s stardom wasn’t enough to get her a pass from the feminist thought police. Someone even tweeted that she should join the list of actresses who “should never be allowed to talk near young girls.” Quite the opposite. She’s got a healthy take on gender roles.

We just came off a national celebration of mothers. Mothers Day draws more attention than ever. Unlike the feminist left, most Americans do not consider honoring women for their familial role archaic or oppressive.
And as for needing a knight in shining armor once in awhile, unlike the gender theorists, Kirsten Dunst knows what she’s talking about.