Zoe Saldana Has a Gender-Fluid Home Life
by EG
Guardians of the Galaxy star Zoe Saldana wants her kids to grow up free of the restrictions of outmoded male-female gender roles. That's why she's trying to raise them in a "gender-fluid" environment. Read on to find out what she means by that.
Via People.
Zoë Saldana isn’t subscribing to gender stereotypes.
The Avengers: Infinity War star opened up to PEOPLE Thursday during the American Express Simplify Your Summer event at Milk Studios in N.Y.C., explaining that the Time’s Up movement has changed her “for the better” in parenting her sons: Zen Anton Hilario, 18 months, and 3½-year-old twins Cy Aridio and Bowie Ezio.
“When you look at parenting, the whole thing about matriarchy and patriarchy, and Daddy’s little girl and Mama’s boys — my husband [Marco Perego-Saldana] and I find that completely ludicrous and absolutely unhealthy for the upbringing of a child,” said Saldana, 40.
“You’re giving them a very distorted and limited view on what a female role is supposed to be in a family and what a male role is supposed to be,” she added.
To combat these stereotypes, Saldana and her husband are “raising our kids in a very gender-fluid environment, where our roles are we swap back and forth,” she explained.
“He’s the bad cop, I’m the good cop and vice versa. There’s no such thing as, ‘Mom’s the boss, listen to your mother,’ ” the actress told PEOPLE. “No, listen to your father as much as your mother because we stand as a unit.”
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