Asking for clarification is fine in any situation. Arguing about semantic meaning of a question is, in my mind, pointless. The original comment wasn't a request for clarification. It was asking why queerness has to be interrogated, implying that the question was doing so. That sounds more like a sly way of beginning an argument about semantics than a simply request for a rephrasing. If the original intention was to clarify Dee's meaning, then that could have been asked outright, the way that the original commented wanted Dee to ask HER question outright.
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Date: 2010-01-14 06:42 pm (UTC)Asking for clarification is fine in any situation. Arguing about semantic meaning of a question is, in my mind, pointless. The original comment wasn't a request for clarification. It was asking why queerness has to be interrogated, implying that the question was doing so. That sounds more like a sly way of beginning an argument about semantics than a simply request for a rephrasing. If the original intention was to clarify Dee's meaning, then that could have been asked outright, the way that the original commented wanted Dee to ask HER question outright.