His joke compared communicating with an alien to communicating with a woman. And then according to her own comment she decided to take extreme offense and disr

His joke compared communicating with an alien to communicating with a woman. And then according to her own comment she decided to take extreme offense and disrupt the entire conference. >"I actually got up and made him apologize for his stupid and offensive joke. On the way out, one woman thanked me and one man told me I should "relax." (I told him he should shut up.)" I would never, ever want this sort of person at a conference or a workplace. Equating the communication with opposite sex to an alien is a common, common theme. Reaching down, coming up with the worst possible way to take it and then cutting him off, disrupting the conference, gloating online is just bad behavior. She even recounts her belligerence to a fellow member of the audience who probably just wanted to hear the presentation. Explaining to the speaker afterwards how his words could be taken would probably have had a genuinely beneficial effect. He might even feel some empathy for what she had to say and come up with a new joke. But he probably feels very little empathy for her at all after her attempt to turn a molehill into a shitstorm. It's exactly this sort of PC-motivated antagonism that I miss least about America.