You could describe the woman (or her remarks) as vapid:
offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.
"tuneful but vapid musical comedies"
synonyms: insipid, uninspired, colorless, uninteresting, feeble, flat, dull, boring, tedious, tired, unexciting, uninspiring, unimaginative, uninvolving, lifeless, tame, vacuous, bland, trite, jejune