“...I don’t know why she considered the reference to be an insult...”
ANYTHING is a pretext for hijacking an event. Me...me...me... It’s ALL about me!!!
See?
Just read a newspaper story about a Christian college about to inaugurate its first-ever woman president. The article told how the previous president offended students whom he had invited to his house for dinner because there were cotton stocks as decorations on the table. That upset them because of the obvious connection to slavery.