Reaction to Ayesha Curry’s recent appearance on Facebook’s Red Table program was so widespread and pointed it prompted reaction from Curry herself.
Which will likely inspire another wave of reaction. It’s like the world’s most powerful call and response echo chamber.
For those late to the party, the Red Table episode brought together the women in Stephen Curry’s world — his mother, his sister, his sister-in-law-to-be, and of course, his wife. Ayesha Curry talked about her famous splash master husband and how their family navigates through his sometimes suffocating fame.
Example: Ayesha said she and Stephen went shopping for bicycles a few years ago. As passersby asked Stephen for autographs and photos (and he complied, naturally), Ayesha was breastfeeding her daughter Riley in the back seat of their car. Suddenly a woman opened the door. When Ayesha suggested the woman was acting improperly, the woman said, “You know what you signed up for.”
What really got the trolls in a tizzy was when Ayesha talked about women who are attracted to men like her husband and how she has to intervene at times because Stephen “never sees it coming.”
And then: “The past 10 years, I don’t have any of that. I have zero male attention. I begin to internalize it. Is something wrong with me?”
It wasn’t a pitiable rant. Curry’s demeanor suggested light-hearted irony. The show’s host, Jada Pinkett Smith, jumped in, saying, “Men know when your radar is off.”
It appears the reaction grated on Curry, because she took to Instagram on Wednesday to fine tune her message.
To be continued? That’s a slam dunk.
