allDear Fellow Fire Fans,
I’m going to make some assumptions here to start things off. Please don’t take it personally.
I’m going to guess that, if you’re reading this, there’s a good chance that you identify with the gender you were assigned at birth. (The word for this is Cisgender.) If you’re a man, you probably have an ‘M’ on your birth certificate and ID, were probably given clothes and toys coded For Boys as a kid, were raised in a society in which you occupied one of two accepted categories for gender, and ultimately learned what was expected of you as a man by osmosis (and occasionally more direct means, like bullying or being told that “Real Men Don’t Do X,” where X is some fun thing you did until someone said it’s not allowed).