Kirsten Dunst tells us why women just need to be women and men need to be men.

This week everyone’s favourite baby-vampire-angel/suicidal virgin/cheerleader/sad blonde has broken cool girl hearts across the world by telling Harper’s Bazaar UK:

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 mom created.

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 how relationships work.

Which… no. Kirsten. Just no.

You were meant to be the awesome wild child who smoked pot on the beach, lost her shoes at parties and was prepared to talk publicly about your struggle with depression. You were the girl who routinely stepped away from acting to work on your art.

Honestly Kiki, you were so hip. And now this.

Did you accidentally slip and fall into the 1950s? Did the rehab in Utah reprogram you as a sleeper agent for regressive gender politics? What is going on with you girl?

It’s fine for you to value your mother’s contribution to society –  you should, but to then turn around and imply that when relationships fail it’s because women aren’t ‘being women’ is very uncool.

Just FYI, for the future. When you want to defend femininity without selling out feminism, here’s how you do it. Courtesy of someone with eyes as big and blue and wide as yours are: Zooey Deschanel.

 It’s sexist to think that somebody can’t act in a girly way or speak the way I want to speak or to assume that I’m not a strong and intelligent woman because of my appearance.

Thanks Zoey, what a great point.

A point about choice and being able to act the way you want to act and not be judged for it… So kind of the opposite of telling the world in totally binary terms how relationships work, really.