She must have made the idiotic assumption that everyone who is not a Leftist is a violence freak, which was particularly disappointing in that I thought she was more intelligent, knew me better than that, and was not so prone to LW indoctrination as she apparently is.
I had to repeatedly tell her that I definitely did not enjoy gratuitous violence in my viewing, and that I make no effort to watch the gore and splatterfests that are so popular today, let alone the more extreme stuff like Peckinpah's.
I checked - it was Tarantino who directd that - another gore monger I go out of my way to avoid.