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Many others in this thread have said that the phrase refers to abandoning friends in favor of sex with a woman, which would seem to indicate that "ho" is being used to denigrate the woman involved.
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Yes, it often refers to abandoning friends over a woman. I don't see your implication at all, though. The man is being told to give his friends (bros) some respect. That doesn't (necessarily) have anything to do with the woman involved. For example, it's often used to tell a man to stop flirting with a woman that one of his friends has been interested in.
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In any case, even if we accept that it's a phrase that's acceptable among male friends, that's not how it was used here. It was used here in public among a large group of women. Even if we accept everything you say, it was still rude to use it in this context.
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Fair enough, but I think the poster was just trying to be witty (certainly not a first on this board). That usually involves saying something a little off-color, and there's often a fine line between amusing people and offending them. He probably also didn't realize that the expression wasn't known to everyone.
Since we're now on the topic of how to act around the opposite sex, I think it is important to point out that men usually don't intend (or even think of) every possible implication in their choice of language before speaking. Similarly, there are often things women say that men will never pick up. I think we'd all be better off if we tried to recognize these things more often rather than just assuming a man was rude or a woman was overemotional.