Dear Romaine,
my personal opnion on this: You probably (as most of us) fell victim to today's spreading zeitgeist of taking offence in very small transgressions. This doesn't only concern the so-called "
snowflake generation", but has morphed into a general culture of sensitivities that serve identity building purposes.
While this started as well-meant protection of minorities and people with special needs against normative disadvantages, it has lead to a mindset where the civil exercise of hiding one's sensitivities in order to make human interaction work has almost entirely vanished.
In other words: It is crucial for civilised societies that everyone in them is willing (ability is not the problem) to endure other people's quirks, shortcomings and unintentional transgressions to some extent. Instead, it has become a matter of identity to express anything that one is in the slightest way offended by, and demand protection against that.
This development IMHO has to stop, if we don't want to end up in a totally atomised, solidarity-free society. I hope you continue to support our event.
Best
John