We've grown to dread all those socio-political treatises that's all about empowerment and "taking something" back, usually involving some member of an "oppressed minority" hitting you over the head with how proud they are of being in said "oppressed minority". While that kind of stuff had it's place years ago, we're over it. Regretrosexual touches upon all that stuff, especially sexual identity, but it's not like that at all. It's way more personal than political, more "Seinfeld" than . Rothenberg's only concerned with getting at personal truths, not political.