Saint Akim’s Reviews > Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex > Status Update

something quite interesting - as much as the book wants to criticize upper class white liberalism, there is at his heart an obsession to be good. Someone IS a "political failure" or "political success". Status, as something that can be showcased, wielded and that protects from shame and makes one "valid".