Kirsten Dunst offends with Statement on Gender Roles
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Feminist are chanting "Off with her head!" after Marie Antoinette star Kirsten Dunst's latest comments on gender roles were revealed in the May issue of Harper's Bazaar UK.
The 31-year-old cover girl has a more traditional view when it comes to relationships between men and women.
"I feel like the feminine has been a little undervalued," she told the 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 Midnight Special star, who has been dating actor Garrett Hedlund since the Sundance Film Festival in January 2012, argues that finding a manly man is necessary.
"And sometimes, you need your knight in shining armour," continued Dunst, whose exes include Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire, and Justin Long. "I’m sorry. You need a man to be a man and a woman to be a woman. That’s how relationships work."
Naturally, her comments have stirred up controversy on the Internet. Sites like Jezebel and Uproxx have bashed Dunst's comments.
“Kirsten Dunst is not paid to write gender theory so it shouldn't surprise anyone that she's kind of dumb about it,” Jezebel writer Erin Gloria Ryan wrote.
Women are so much better at those stuff then men are, like seriously. if most husbands tried to make something that didn't come from the microwave the house would burn down
Alot of women love staying at home, cooking, and nurturing. And most men prefer a woman who enjoys doing that.
Alot/most =/= all which is what she seems to be implying and why people are getting upset about her statement. If somebody genuinely enjoys fulfilling traditional gender roles and that is their own choice, then fine but don't say that everybody in the world needs to abide by that.
Kirsten Dunst is so far from C-List...she's a damn Cannes Best Actress winner that has worked with Sofia Coppola (x2), Lars von Trier, Michel Gondry, and others to great success. She has some really interesting projects coming up as well.
As for the statements, they're completely blown out of proportion. She's been a huge advocate for LGBT rights and marriage equality throughout the years, and she was only giving her own perspective of how heterosexual relationships work for herself.
Women are so much better at those stuff then men are, like seriously. if most husbands tried to make something that didn't come from the microwave the house would burn down
Her opinion is fair but the way she says it is too close-minded.
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Originally posted by Fireman25
I was just thinking about her the other day. I don't see her much in films anymore, it's like she just fell off.
She's actually been in some pretty interesting movies in the last few years. I recently watched Upside Down and Melancholia and was impressed because both are pretty ambitious creatively and for the longest time all I really remembered her for was Bring It On.
She deserved an Oscar nomination for Melancholia, if Lars' stupid ass wouldn't have made those crazy nazi comments she probably would have gotten it too.
I had no idea she was with Garrett Hedlund.
if most husbands tried to make something that didn't come from the microwave the house would burn down
