All of the women in my life that I can think of have larger phones, often the plus sized models. They tend to use some form of a popsocket to make it manageable

All of the women in my life that I can think of have larger phones, often the plus sized models. They tend to use some form of a popsocket to make it manageable. This could very well be the reality of the phone market for women without trying to unmask anyone making the observation as sexist. Seems like you read their comment as a prescription of how things ought to be. I'm not sure what the fuss is about though. The people doing the market research have decided offer two small options in the current iPhone generation, so there's clearly a market for it whether that's women driving that market or not. There are all sorts of reasons anyone might want a smaller phone. I own a 13 mini myself and I'm a big guy.