Steph Curry’s defense of Ayesha exposes the ugly double standards of the sports manosphere
The Warriors superstar’s forceful defense of his wife over an on-screen kiss has exposed the ugly double standards and fragile masculinity of sports’ manosphere If Steph Curry is leading with his full government name, know that he means business.
Key points
- The point was driven home yet again when ex-NFL players Emmanuel Acho and LeSean McCoy, perhaps misunderstanding the concept of acting, debated the Curry kiss on their macho podcast – with Acho suggesting that Ayesha, through her words and actions, keeps telegraphing to the world that “she’s not that into Steph Curry”.
- Sports gossips have been making a game of picking apart Steph and Ayesha’s relationship since he shot to stardom at Davidson College.
- No matter what Ayesha did, it seemed, there was no winning over sports fans steeped in the manosphere’s retrograde views of women.
You’re taking the pictures, but we don’t want to know you.” Arenas went even further, calling Ayesha “the only blemish” in the Curry family as Nick Young, who played alongside Curry on Golden State’s 2018 championship team, nodded along.
Additional details
- Steph Curry defends his wife, Ayesha, against criticism of her on-screen kiss in a video posted to Instagram on Wednesday.
- Photograph: Cindy Ord/MG26/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue If Steph Curry is leading with his full government name, know that he means business.
- Related: Yaxel Lendeborg is the NBA’s most entertaining rookie – and he’s not holding back On a recent episode of his We Said What We Said podcast, former NBA mainstay Gilbert Arenas reserved an entire segment to take exception to Ayesha turning down the role of basketball tradwife.
- The critics blanched when Ayesha joined the 2010s culinary craze with a blog and a YouTube channel, in which she shared dangerous, subversive recipes such as “Stephen’s five-ingredient game-day pasta”.
- Arenas should consider himself lucky that Steph responded in a strongly worded social media statement instead of going the Javaris Crittenton route and pulling a gun on Arenas in the locker room.
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