Ayesha Curry, wife of Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry, took to the Internet over the weekend to air out a couple opinions on current trends in women's style, as one is wont to do:
Everyone's into barely wearing clothes these days huh? Not my style. I like to keep the good stuff covered up for the one who matters 😂😂😂
— Ayesha Curry (@ayeshacurry) December 6, 2015Her hot take on the issue immediately polarized her sizable social media following, provoking voracious support and derision alike. Her name even reached trending status worldwide for a couple of hours in the aftermath. Curry then followed up her tweet with the following:
Just looking at the latest fashion trends. I'll take classy over trendy any day of the week. #saturdaynightinsight
— Ayesha Curry (@ayeshacurry) December 6, 2015
😂 and all I'm doing is sitting here reading a style weekly 😎😎😎. You guys definitely entertain me that's for sure.
— Ayesha Curry (@ayeshacurry) December 6, 2015While Ayesha did not name anyone specifically, the tweets seem to have struck a nerve, given a recent wave of stories and social movements against slut-shaming that have emerged; Amber Rose in particular has led the movement of letting women wear whatever the hell they want on their bodies, thank you very much. Ayesha's comments were interpreted as slut-shaming, and many of the replies—both supportive and derisive—busied themselves with the 'hoe-ism' of Curry and women at large:
reading what Ayesha Curry said & thinking that's nice..but there's STILL a man somewhere who STILL called you a h*e at some pt #ItJustIs
— Lita James (@lita_james114) December 6, 2015
@ayeshacurry pic.twitter.com/8LXKtLi0f2
— Ä G G I Ë (@Swagxtha) December 6, 2015And—of course—the cycle would simply not be complete without a statement from Chef Curry himself, courtesy of CSN reporter Rosalyn Gold-Onwude:
Spoke w/ Steph Curry about Ayesha's tweets. Said he was surprised ppl took offense to it. He thought Twitter was for expressing opinions.
— Rosalyn Gold-Onwude (@ROSGO21) December 7, 2015
Steph Curry said all Ayesha did was express her style preference. It was not a judgement.
— Rosalyn Gold-Onwude (@ROSGO21) December 7, 2015
Steph Curry told me he (& his teammates) did have a laugh at some of the memes circulating...
— Rosalyn Gold-Onwude (@ROSGO21) December 7, 2015
Steph Curry told me he's proud of Ayesha "bc she stayed upbeat through the attention. She didn't let the negativity in".
— Rosalyn Gold-Onwude (@ROSGO21) December 7, 2015
Steph Curry said he's pretty sure some ppl look up to his wife Ayesha bc of what she stands for, how she carries herself & her priorities.
— Rosalyn Gold-Onwude (@ROSGO21) December 7, 2015
Steph's also proud of Ayesha bc "she has her own following. Ppl care about what she says. You have to be true to self & she's best at that."
— Rosalyn Gold-Onwude (@ROSGO21) December 7, 2015So, to recap: on the one hand, Ayesha, Steph and—I think—we as a people can all learn something about the alarmism of social media, and the furor that even one semi-controversial opinion can cause; on the other hand: memes, lol.