No, Tim Cook should be praised because he stood up to the right-wing idiots and told them where to stuff it, instead of treating them like an equal partner in a sensible debate.

The right-wing thinktanks have been flooding debates with PR puff pieces (also known as 'lies') instead of facts, and it is high time they got called on it.

so because "white, libertarian men" decide they want to support something, does that automatically make it bad or wrong?

Not directly. However, since 'white, libertarian men' are without fail complete idiots, it is a good reason to treat anything they espouse with some extra levels of scepticism.

"Not using the actual proof, do you have any proof that these laws work?"

Fuck you. I'm not going to discuss things with people who start out by stacking the deck in their favour.

Does this skew social power in favor of minorities?

Yes, it does. Now my counterquestion: if that social power is heavily skewed against minorities, is it a bad thing to skew it to more of a balance?

Ever heard of the 'tu quoque' fallacy?

I don't. Why don't you provide a link to said debunking?

Because that's the logical endpoint of denying womens' agency.

It's not my fault your statement literally translates to "When a woman says no, she means yes." It's right there in your own words, so you might want to look up what strawman means.

The problem is what women think they want can be totally different than what they deep down want.

"I know she said no, but she totally meant yes"

That's some real questionable reasoning you're showing there.

It's not the mere fact that you can't just be an 'ass hat' that is the problem. What is the problem is that employers communicate these things among each other (that is how you gain a reputation, and that is collusion), forcing employees to put up with inane questions on interviews for fear of losing an opportunity.

And if you can't see that this is a power imbalance that can only be fixed by taking collective action on the employees end, then congratulations, you're an idiot. Go read some Adam Smith to educate yourself.

And yet, even when faced with such obvious collusion by employers, and the power difference this creates, most techies are still violently anti-union.

Dunning-Kruger is alive and well, it seems.

That's a whole lot of crazy there, but not a lot of original thought.

Using 'political correctness' just proves that you're an asshole looking for excuses for your bigotry, and not open to any discussion at all.

Apparently very few women want to be software devs

Given the rampant misogyny on display in the tech world, especially on discussion sites like this, would you want to become a sofware dev, were you a woman?

Actually, you did.

What's with bigots being so tender that they can't stand being called out on their bigotry?

Of course, given your username, the balance of probability says you're just playing a bigot to troll.

It is by far not the only correct response.

Laws like in the EU that forbid selling of private information without prior consent is another possibility.