
I have really small hands. I wear a size 4 on my ring finger. (Fun fact, Hannah does too. We have twin hands. We even have a bunch of matching rings.)
ANYWAY – the ONLY time I’ve ever actually been inconvenienced by my tiny lady hands is when I was trying to teach myself to play the guitar. I just COULDN’T REACH.
Other than that, my hands have never really given me issues. I can’t open a pickle jar to save my life, but that’s why I moved in why my strong, strong boyfriend (TRIGGER ALERT, FEMINISTS.)
In fact, I have an iPhone, and not ONCE have I stopped to think about how SEXIST it is.
It turns out I’m just not #woke enough to realize how much I’ve been victimized by Apple.
According to the New York Post:
When Apple released its iPhone XS line, with screens that range from 5.8 inches to 6.5 inches, they became the company’s largest phones yet. But the big screens have triggered a backlash from women who say the device is too large for the average female hand.
“Women like me with small hands who need the most secure phone for safety reasons are stuck with something they can’t hold and constantly risk dropping,” tweeted sociology professor Zeynep Tufekci, who teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Some people like the bigger phones. Fine. Keep an alternative for the rest of us.”
“Who need the most secure phone for safety reasons?”
What does this mean?
Like… hacking-wise?
Because it’s certainly not the STURDIEST phone. iPhones crack if you sneeze at them. so…yeah. I don’t know.
“I can’t grow my hands any bigger,” another annoyed iFan tweeted. “Please make a smaller [iPhone].”
British journalist Caroline Criado Perez told The Telegraph she suffered from a repetitive strain injury after using an iPhone 6, which has a 4.7-inch-wide screen, because it was too large for her grip. But her symptoms went away when she switched to the budget-friendly iPhone SE, which has a 4-inch screen.
Buy an Android or something. Are they smaller?
Also, you suffered from a hand injury? WTF were you even doing?
Apple announced it will be discontinuing the iPhone SE, further angering customers.
“I have to make a choice between making an upgrade to the only phone that fits my hand before they discontinue it — soon there will be no iPhone that fits the average woman’s hand size — even though the technology is two years out of date,” Criado Perez said.
“WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.”
The AWESOME thing is that gender’s just a construct and there are no biological differences between the sexes, which means none of the arguments above mean anything.
So we’re all done here, right?
Right.