What is beauty: unrealistic and unobtainableFor centuries, humanity has tried unsuccessfully to define beauty. Greek philosophers, including Plato, tried to define beauty as if it were as simple as any other law of nature. However this cannot be the case because the idea of ​​what is beautiful has varied across cultures and eras. In the 19th century, pale and rather plump women were considered objects of desire; but in today's society, desirable women are, among other things, slim and tanned. The fact is that today beauty is as unattainable as it is indefinable. All of today's supermodels, seen in millions of advertisements, have been edited, airbrushed and Photoshopped. Women who desire this beauty have turned to various sources of fake remedies, spending thousands of dollars, in the hope that they too can be beautiful. The media has distorted and warped our ideal definition of beauty into something that does not exist naturally and is simply inaccessible. Our brain is naturally attracted to certain things that are clean, smooth, symmetrical, things it sees as beautiful. This is one way many have tried to define beauty. Mary Carole McCauley, journalist for the Baltimore Sun, in her article "Beauty and the Brain" (2010) states that the human brain is "wired" to see certain objects as beautiful based on shape, color and arrangement. McCauley speaks with John Hopkins University and the Walters Art Museum to discuss their research on the brain's responses to beauty. These organizations are setting up an experiment to see how the brain defines things as beautiful. "Guests of the gallery take a notepad and put on a pair of 3-D glasses. They examine a series of 25 small drawings based on Renow's abstract sculptures... in the center of the paper... she has been improved, modified, airbrushed and computerized, creating a false and unattainable beauty "the media really distorts the truth and instills this false hope in women because, in essence, they will live their lives never achieving this ideal physical appearance although many women are aware that such." beauty is unreal, they will still strive to achieve it because it is the object by which their peers judge them until they can feel beautiful cosmetic surgery to feel beautiful. Other women, who cannot afford surgery, resort to eating disorders, all of which are extremely unhealthy. Society has distorted our views on what should and should not be acceptable, with beauty being the only issue However, beauty is the topic most felt by people today.