Mr. Rochester in this moment becomes someone who's the *opposite* of himself in every possible way -- a woman, non-white, an "exotic" foreigner, an outcaste permanently excluded from the Victorian social hierarchy
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And that, as Butler complained about, in trying to make this "accessible" to a wider audience I have to make all these assumptions about what you and my imaginary reader already know or believe ("How do we feel about drag specifically, what will the reaction be to that")
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Give this man his cookie.
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did you pick the Rochester scene because you saw me mention it or did we just independently think of the same thing?
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It's the obvious example from talking about Jane Eyre and the concept of "impersonation"
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