With a mnifty mneumonic. Or mnot so mnifty, as the case may be.
March 25, 2015 11:04 AM Subscribe
"It's like FOR FUCK'S SAKE! Could we just have ONE place where we don't get all rapey? Could that place be, I don't know, the fucking cranial nerves!?": Um, there's some rape culture in my neuroanatomy. [trigger warning]
This post was deleted for the following reason: I do dig the rant for rants' sake, but as a short personal rant about a gross mnemonic they remember from school this is pretty thin for a post. -- cortex
Seriously -- in my undergrad electronics class I feel like I have to specifically disavow any resistor color mnemonics they might find online. They're either misogynist, or racist, or both. (One of the "both" variants was written on the chalkboard more-or-less permanently in the electrical engineering lab I took my first classes in. Hopefully times have changed, or at least I'm trying to do my part to change them in my tiny corner of the teaching world.)
posted by range at 11:19 AM on March 25, 2015
posted by range at 11:19 AM on March 25, 2015
I am suddenly so very grateful to my high school anatomy teacher for coming up with his own set of mnemonics for the 12 cranial nerves that were incredibly goofy and not at all offensive. (Three -> tree -> picture an engine in a tree with a big eye on top (seriously) -> oculumotor! Weird enough to stick for 25 years, hey?). I had no idea horrible things like this were out there until today. Gah.
posted by dragstroke at 11:20 AM on March 25, 2015
posted by dragstroke at 11:20 AM on March 25, 2015
I assume I learned the same racist and misogynistic resistor mnemonic as range. And it's pretty damn racist and misogynistic.
Ugh.
posted by Justinian at 11:25 AM on March 25, 2015
Ugh.
posted by Justinian at 11:25 AM on March 25, 2015
« Older The Hip-Hop Messiah: An Archetype | tampon or fungus? Newer »
This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments
posted by a manly man person who is male and masculine at 11:11 AM on March 25, 2015 [1 favorite]