How Not To Be a Boy

by Robert Webb

I think it’s quite likely that these beliefs affect the academic life of boys. And that some boys duly live down to those expectations and can hit their GCSEs still thinking that maleness and studying is an awkward fit and that reading is still basically for gaylords.

Wedding Day This, they say, is the best it gets – this glorious day, so let’s have this glorious day and kiss Goodnight, and wake up hungover, and fight. And make up and kiss Goodnight, and wake up and make jokes: some good, and make plans and kiss Goodnight and sleep and hold hands. And wake up and insist and be wrong and laugh like monkeys, without understanding, and be right. And then let’s kiss and kiss and kiss and kiss and kiss and kiss Goodnight, and sleep and keep each other warm and wake up and take up each other’s cause and forsake all others, for as long as the light lasts. And then let’s kiss our last Goodnight And oh! Christ let me dream of your sweet face then.