Misogyny Has Struck A Successful Woman Once Again
- Oct 13, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 27, 2025
Regardless of the progressive gender roles in our current society, misogyny always finds a way to slither into any topic regarding gender. Especially when it comes to the relationship between a star athlete and his wife. Suddenly, we’re back in the 1960s where gender roles are exclusively focused on putting women in the shadow of their husbands.
In a recent podcast episode on Call Her Daddy, host Alex Cooper interviewed Ayesha Curry, and the misogynist backlash has spread like a virus. The podcast episode ran through Ayesha’s childhood and upbringing, her relationship with Stephen Curry and their children, along with Ayesha’s personal successes. Audience members took one of Ayesha’s comments and built it up to something outlandishly dramatic.
“Okay, four kids. Did you always knew you wanted a big family?” (Alex Cooper, 3:40)
“No. So I didn’t want kids. I didn’t want to get married. I thought I was going to be career girl and that’s it. And I had my eyes set on my goals. And I was never the little girl that like dreamt about the wedding dress and all of that.” (Ayesha Curry, 3:43)
A wave of backlash struck the media immediately after hearing this comment. People are shaming Ayesha for admitting to never wanting to be married or having kids. Comments like “Free my man Steph!” and “Curry deserves better” and “Steph’s worst ring” have surfaced under Ayesha’s most recent Instagram post. https://www.instagram.com/p/DPwh8JNAZul/?igsh=M3Yxd2NpMG5taDI3
Ayesha and Alex even highlighted this predictable reaction during the episode when referring to the dual lifestyle of working and having a family at the same time. ”When men do it, they’re like oh my god you’re so multi-faceted—wow—a renaissance man. And I’m like—why can’t women do the same thing?” (Ayesha Curry, 35:14).
The angry comments towards Ayesha are directly derived from a group of misogynists who expect an unreasonable dynamic between a wife/mother and a successful working male athlete. It doesn’t matter that Ayesha has been working in the entertainment industry since she was three, has an award winning lifestyle-skin care brand, has written cookbooks and hosts a popular cooking channel—men will always be triggered by a woman’s success and a lack of traditional-wife qualities. It is remarkably insulting that we as a society still have not grown out of this type of hatred towards a successful woman. Let this instance be a reminder of this misogynist virus that we all must learn to cure out of our society. Because truly, what is so wrong and so different about having a woman do exactly what a man is doing?
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