A lot of the people disagreeing with the Madam Curry are reading the subtext of what she is saying, and the people agreeing with her more or less are reading the context. Context wise she is saying that she likes to dress a bit more conservatively than what women's fashion is currently dictating. Subtext wise, she is taking a position of being better than women who show more skin. It is being read that way because of what we know about her- superstar athlete for a husband (gotta be a cheater they respond), Christian values (they're hypocrites they respond), failed attempt at an acting career and stay at home mom (she's leeching off her husband and isn't giving this world anything of value they respond). Anytime a woman with some type of privilege over their peers, said peers seek to knock her down a few pegs to get her back on their level. Some say that she's on the defensive because her husband cheats on her with the very hit dogs who are hollering about this, and even if that is indeed the case, why does it even matter? Why does her potential unhappiness fill you with a sense of satisfaction?
I'm a woman, and I suck at reading conversational and social subtext, so that's why I, and I'm only speaking for me and no one else, was able to read what she's saying for its face value and not for what lies beneath. Missing the subtext, I couldn't take it as an offense against me.
As someone who enjoy studying human nature and psychology, sociology, gender etc; her tweet provides a lot of subtext for me. I could honestly write a paper off of it, lol.
On the part about Christian values though...
I think the reason why people get salty when the good Christian moral folk start speaking of their good ways is because sometimes that speak is just that: Speak.
I grew up in the church and was surrounded by families of a similar nature: Traditional, righteous, moral, good kids, educated, wealthy, homeowners, every "i" dotted and every "t" crossed type folk. However, underneath it all, there was always chatter going around about how one family would be having problems with domestic abuse, another family having problems with affairs, or that quintessential good church girl turning that ass up whenever she went on "proper" outings with her similar good church girl friends. Usually, that chatter turned out to be true more often than not...
There was one family, who was a light skinned family (
), that were pretty respected. The marriage was praised as the best marriage and the children were praised as the best children as well. However, the husband was having affairs and being abusive. Then the wife feeling neglected and lonely started to have an affair and the children weren't coming along to well either because the father had left home and a divorced was in a mist. The son had some anger issues behind it too.
I think of my best friend at the time who was the pastor's grand daughter and I remember when he stated in the pool pit that his granddaughter was going to be a lady (was low key throwing shade at my twelve year-old self
) and didn't have t.v. in the house and was peculiar in how she went out and about in public. Make a long story short, she had two kids out of wedlock not too long after high school and from what I understand, she was living with her boyfriend and her grandfather threw them out on some mess that had happened and I honestly do not know if she ever got married. Also, she sometimes got preferred treatment over her brother who would get unnecessarily discipline. He went back up to Baltimore with his mom back in the early 2000s and I haven't heard of him since. Hopefully, he doing good in life.
I got stories for days about this kind of stuff...
Anyway, as I said in another post: I respect the Curry family and wish them well and I do not like how some people are wishing bad on their marriage and family. However, radical feminists aside, I can see where people are coming from and as someone who comes from a Church/Christian background and saw all kinds of mess go down, I understand even more and it's the reason why I no longer get easily swayed by "perfect" families...
I mean, I ain't down with the Amber Rose foolishness either and I do think the days of proud whoring are coming to an end (it's way too over saturated and in people's faces too much) but I do think that people need to drop this idea that a so-called proper woman is immune from being sinful as well and need to learn that you can still be an incogneato skank.
Overall, I'm neutral in this fiasco. Good for her and may her marriage be blessed!
Sorry for the long post...