I would assert that the genders could be reversed, say, for a husband's handsomeness, or any other quality in any person, and the metric would apply. And of cou

I would assert that the genders could be reversed, say, for a husband's handsomeness, or any other quality in any person, and the metric would apply. And of course persons could be removed altogether – that's the point – we started out talking about cell phones. The purpose of my anecdote, and the reason I chose something with such sentiment, is to highlight the semantic difference between words by placing them in a more emotionally charged context. One likely doesn't think too hard about the praise they bestow upon their iPhone. One hopefully thinks harder about the praise they send their lover. The heightened importance of word choice in situation B makes it easier to understand situation A. If degrading sexist tropes are your mind's first destination in in the context of this conversation, I believe you are a hammer in search of a nail.