Is it just about preserving a space where old boys can relax and be old boys together without the psychosexual dynamics that women would bring, or is it about enhancing their own power by exclusion, by targeting another group for their hostility?
If you're okay with dancing with boys, just relax and follow the instructions the teacher gives you.
"With a light shift of her voice, she commands a rebellious child to kiss her goodbye; with an unobtrusive gesture, she flicks an ironing board from a sofa so that a lounging and slightly fatuous college boy can relax in a tenement," Kerr wrote.
Before you pluck up the courage to ask this boy out, relax your arms, clear your face, speak up and smile.
Despite its horrible pilot – where Courteney Cox decides to start shagging teenage boys – Cougar Town relaxed substantially over the course of its run, until it simply became a show about people hanging out and getting drunk.
"We've got to keep our feet on the ground but the boys rode relaxed, in control.
I was going to be on a skateboard road trip ending in South Beach, and I thought I would fly her and the boys down to relax in the sun.
At a sprawling, tree-shaded country house in rural Pennsylvania, a place of serenity that most city dwellers can only dream about as a retreat from the mean streets, two weekending couples, one with a 2-year-old boy, were relaxing on Saturday night when the nightmare strode in from the darkness.
The boy finally relaxed and as the surgeon examined him, another nurse came from behind Vera.
According to this narrative, Lehmann was the liberator whom would amble into the dressing room and "relax" the boys.
