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>This was theoretically a professional partner event. You wouldn't get a comedian on stage cracking racist jokes at those, so why should sexist jokes be acceptable?*

The question is why wouldn't it be? Racist and reverse racist jokes, jokes playing with national stereotypes in general, are the stock and trade of comedians. Same for jokes about women, marriage, mother's in law, etc.

It's fucking joke. It's not supposed to be the comedian's party line.

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So you don't think it was inappropriate in a professional setting to make women, which the company goes out of its way to actually attempt to encourage into the industry (they have a specific site for encouragement of women in technology on their official site: http://content.dell.com/us/en/business/women-powering-busine... ), feel like the only thing they're good for is being the butt of jokes?

Wow. For the record, I would, as a white person, feel similarly uncomfortable and disgusted by racist jokes in any setting really. It's one thing to make fun about yourself, it's another to poke fun at others' expense in an unkind manner.

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