Diet Culture and Eating Disorders
A mental disorder in which a person is unable to accurately perceive what their body looks like.
What is body dysmorphia?
The main character of 1984.
Who is Winston Smith?
A book with maps in it.
What is an Atlas?
A coloured powder applied above the eyes.
What is eyeshadow?
The tendency to only listen to (or place more emphasis on) information that supports your pre-existing viewpoint.
What is confirmation bias?
A diet which aims to eliminate carbohydrates (or reduce them to an incredibly small amount).
What is keto?
A system used in libraries to classify non-fiction books.
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
The centre of the most commonly-used map of the flat-earth.
What is the north pole?
A makeup technique that involves using different shades of makeup to enhance or modify your face shape.
What is contouring?
Attacking someone's character, rather than their argument.
What is ad hominem?
A diet that restricts any eating to a specified time frame, usually 8 hours or less.
What is intermittent fasting?
A British author known mainly for writing comedic fantasy series and who died of Alzheimer's in 2015.
Who is Terry Pratchett?
What is the Mercator projection?
A hairstyle consisting of braids made from square-shaped hair divisions, popular among Africans.
What are box braids?
Believing an idea to be true or good because many people think it is.
What is the bandwagon effect?
A diet that attempts to resemble that which cavemen (or the stereotypical image of cavemen) used to have.
What is paleo?
The name of Frankenstein's wife.
Who is Elizabeth Lavenza?
A map projection that concentrates on keeping the sizes of all the different countries constant.
What is the Gall-Peters projection?
The technical term for the most tightly coiled hair you can have.
The rejection of examples that do not fit a claim by saying they're not "true" examples.
What is "no true scotsman"?
An eating disorder characterised by an obsession over only eating "healthy" and "pure" foods.
What is orthorexia?
A novel subtitled "A Brief History of Humankind".
What is Sapiens?
The most accurate (commonly used) projection of a world map.
What is a globe?
Applying powder on liquid concealer and then waiting for a while before brushing it off to avoid the makeup looking sweaty.
What is baking?
The tendency to answer questions positively.
What is acquiescence bias?