Kirsten Dunst incurs the wrath of the jackboots

David Limbaugh at Townhall on the reaction to, and implications of, her interview with the UK Harper's Bazaar:

Dunst said: "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 why relationships work."

Notice that Dunst sensed before she had completed her comments that she was stepping in it. She said, "I'm sorry."

Why should she have to preface her heartfelt and innocuous opinion with an apology?

Let me tell you why: People don't have a right to dissent from prevailing leftist views. The militant homosexual lobby is not alone in demanding strict conformity. Militant feminists have done this for a long time themselves.

It's not enough to support equal pay for equal work or to believe that women have the right to pursue any professional career they want. The feminists demand that women adopt their attitude of hostility toward traditional gender roles, even when people choose them, as opposed to being forced into them.

Liberal activists are no more about career choice than they are about choice on the abortion issue. They insist that you reject traditional roles as demeaning and destructive. If you are a woman who wholly supports other women pursuing professional careers but happens to also believe in certain traditional gender roles or characteristics, even on a limited basis, you are the enemy, and you, too, must be shunned.

It's not as though Dunst objects to women having professionally success, as her own career clearly demonstrates. But to say she likes men to be masculine or chivalrous and women to be feminine is blasphemous. For her to acknowledge what people have instinctively known since the beginning of time -- that men and women are different -- is threatening to feminists.

Because the Great Leveling Project extends to obliterating biological bases for our identities.

If you need a positive note to end this post on, I offer Twitchy's roundup of tweets of support for Dunst.