“I am Ashamed that Women Are So Simple”

The other day my ipod was on shuffle and the song “I Am Ashamed that Women are So Simple” from the Cole Porter musical Kiss Me, Kate started to play. I really struggle as a feminist with shows like Kiss Me, Kate which follows that same story as Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. Basically two headstrong people wind of married the woman realizes her faults and submits to her husband when her husband remains the same. (there is another love story as well, but I have never really cared about the younger couple.)
On one hand I am greatly offended about the fact that Kate realizes her faults and her husband does not even if he is just as outrageous. Yet on the other hand I really enjoy the show. If it is done correctly its an amazing piece of musical theatre full of famous songs like “Its Darn Hot” “Always True to You” “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” and other hit Porter songs. But as a feminist who sees the less then stellar qualities of the show, should I renounce it and not watch/listen to the show? Should I just avoid it? Or should I look at it as something to enjoy and take with the knowledge that it is full of faults? Realize the limitations of the show and still take pleasure from it? Either way I feel like I am sacrificing part of who I am- the woman who loves musical theatre, and the feminist. Either way I feel vaguely guilty. I mean even if I understand the anti-woman qualities, words still matter and can affect society.
I feel like this is something that a lot of feminists struggle with- beyond musical theatre. In all aspects of life from make-up, to pop songs, to beauty magazine, to hit television shows, to the Oscars. Trying to walk the line between pleasure and our own moral ground can be difficult and I am still trying to discover where that line lays in society and my own piece of mind.