A Cool Take On Pronouns

Jave Galt-Miller
21 min readDec 1, 2020

I recently posted a funny anecdote to my Facebook feed about a home-schooling faux-pas. With school happening on Zoom this year, I’ve made an effort to hold class with my seven-year-old whenever I can — to teach things beyond what he’s learning in second grade. I’m not going to get into the details here, but let me assure you it was comedic gold — on par with Cosby’s Kids Say the Darndest Things. But the punch line resulted from my introduction of pronouns, and my use of the word “sex” rather than “gender”.

Anyway, I thought it was funny, and I shared it on Facebook. Full disclosure: my…

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Jave Galt-Miller

TV Producer and Comics Writer. Read the first 20 pages of my “Trial of Socrates” graphic novel here: poliscomic.com