So basicly she was primed for a fight and you gave her an opening. Its amazing the topics you can turn againt someone if you really want to. For example my co-worker said that there was no such thing as nothing. I argued that our language was inadiquate, that by naming the absence of everything we quantified it but that still no-where and no-when there is no-thing, the absence must exist in a non-existant way. Our langauge simply does not have he proper meaning associated with its words to convey the absence.
Remember, some of your ancestors were Irish, who were stuffed over by the English for ages before Africa. Of course some of your ancestors were English and did the stuffing, but you know, life.