I don't think she meant to make a generalisation (because I don't think she includes herself in that characterisation of behaviour), just used generalising language, which can be misunderstood all too easily.

BTW, I once got a letter published in Newsweek in which I blasted them for generalising language. (And the crooks re-edited some words central to my points.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}