“Why are you asking that?” This, I’ve found, is always a good answer to an unfriendly question. – Rebecca Solnit, in The Mother of All Questions
h/t KC
“Why are you asking that?” This, I’ve found, is always a good answer to an unfriendly question. – Rebecca Solnit, in The Mother of All Questions
h/t KC
Another strategy I employ when I don’t like a question is to slowly
repeat the question back to the questioner.
Or more neutrally and pithily, “why do you ask?”