linger a while

This is also why the gender dynamics of broader cis society still recreate themselves in trans spaces. It's why many trans women, myself included, would tell you that patriarchy did not feel welcoming to us as children even when we didn't know we were trans yet. I heard the message "Women are lesser than men" and my child reaction was terror at the idea of "being caught" enjoying femininity. (I've also had realizations over the years that my parents definitely extended less of the benefits of patriarchy to me than they did my brother which I don't have time to get into right now)

Waitress taking my order: Such arrogance! Not only do you presume to boast under the guise of being humble, but your order employs the most decadent of linguistic excesses - the tautology!

My date, who until recently thought "tautology" referred to the study of tensile strengths and upon learning her mistake compensated by reading through its Wikipedia article: That would be more correctly identified as a "pleonasm".

The editor I hired to curate my posts who styles himself as a sort of scheming court advisor: My liege, this one is getting away from us. The punchline loses much of its impact when the rest of the joke is derailed by this increasingly self-indulgent meta humour. Were it up to me, your Grace, which of course it is not, I would cut the others and leave myself as the only supporting character. You need noone else, Your Majesty...

Guess who got into Limbus Company

already at canto IV