Ehh...You usually don’t want to “ask someone out” in a way that’s unambiguously romantic, because that makes any rejection explicit. People usually prefer to maintain some level of polite fiction about what’s being proposed or rejected.
If you go ahead and ask someone out this way, and they’re a bit oblivious or you’re a little too subtle, and they are the wrong sexuality, you can end up in a really awkward situation.
Ehh...You usually don’t want to “ask someone out” in a way that’s unambiguously romantic, because that makes any rejection explicit. People usually prefer to maintain some level of polite fiction about what’s being proposed or rejected.
If you go ahead and ask someone out this way, and they’re a bit oblivious or you’re a little too subtle, and they are the wrong sexuality, you can end up in a really awkward situation.
Agreed that making ambiguous requests prevents rejection from being explicit and allows for really awkward situations.
This is true even if everyone involved is “the right sexuality.”
That strikes me as a reason to endorse unambiguous (though polite) requests and rejections. That said, I agree that some people prefer to avoid them.