In Boyland the concept of competition is muy importante. If you don't have the cohones to compete you won't get the girl. As a visitor in, rather than a resident of this fascinating complex arena, Trixie sometimes finds herself reaching into her bag of trix for quick pat explanations to enlarge her readerships' understanding of certain accepted, well-established but, frankly, baffling concepts. But this one is a big one, and requires careful scholarship and elucidation. In her many and varied forays into Boyland (including periods of intensive undercover work where she passed, rather distressingly easily, for an actual Boy) Trixie has observed this phenomenon from close quarters.
The readership must understand that when Boys venture out into the larger world of dating and courtship and mating rituals their competitive behaviour takes on a whole other dimension, an edge as it were. But safely in Boyland, it isn't always what it appears to be. There is a lot of dust, shall we say, and noise and thunder but rarely any actual gore. Boys like to be seen to compete, boys allow each other to compete, boys are all about competing but in Boyland the object is not to actually get the girl. No, no, no.
Getting the girl, in fact, would spoil everything. Nothing withers the
glories of boyland quite so thoroughly as getting the girl. No, the object is to
appear to want to get the girl. To convince each other, at least on the surface, that
one could get the girl if one really wanted to bother, that one could beat the
other to the trophy (and in fact already has on numerous occasions been into the
pants of the trophy, which is another chapter). Trixie realises what a very
complex phenomenon she is attempting to elucidate here. The element of
competition exists in Boyland, oh yes indeed, it is essential, it is the very heart
and soul of the place, but it is simply not about what it appears to be about. In
fact it isn't really about anything at all, it simply is, beautifully, simply,
competitiveness.
One boy can always be better than another at anything at all: one boy is taller, stronger, better-looking, smarter, can throw farther, spit farther, piss farther and longer, be more of a brat (also another chapter) later in life. One boy always has a bigger dick than another. Which brings us full circle and Trixie is tired for now.