Eight girls are queuing at the cinema. All smiling in a carefree way that you might expect from any American teenager. However, statistics say that two of these girls show scars on their bodies that our society would consider “self-inflicted.” The truth is that these two girls are hurt by the immense weight of our culture's beauty demands. Requirements that can potentially be explained by science, but neither the way our society allows itself to be controlled by such worldly fantasies nor the effect on the people it oppresses are in any way justified. Although there are countless explanations with which we could decipher Considering the origin of our culture's general idea of ​​external beauty, science is currently the main source of great importance to delve deeper into this topic. In Blinded By Science The Math Behind Beauty (June 2007), Bruno Maddox argues that "In short, the science of beauty was inaugurated by two classical thinkers on whose shoulders the science of virtually everything else would eventually rest" (page 1). Maddox supports this claim with the "golden ratio" (paragraph 2) or the "proportional relationship between two lines" (paragraph 3), as well as demonstrating that the Greeks also saw beauty in symmetry thousands of years ago. The purpose of this is to show how simple and logical our methodology of discerning external beauty truly is. This idea, that the human perception of beauty is so simple that it is composed mostly of lines of symmetry that attract us, may seem offensive or impossible, but science has gathered excellent evidence to support it (more of which can be found in Blinded from science. In a much less intellectually daunting context...... middle of paper ...... but what he created can exist or that beauty is not limited to appearance but is infinite in definition; the content of a man's character down to the soul. Leo Tolstoy once said: “It is astonishing how complete the illusion is that beauty is goodness (The Kreutzer Sonata) Perhaps if current culture will ever fully grasp Tolstoy's wisdom words, there would be a revolution in our ideology about beauty and two fewer girls buying popcorn would have scars to hide. Works CitedDove Self-Esteem Fund "Real Girls, Real Pressure: A National Report on the State of Self-Esteem June ". 2008: Maddox, Bruno. “Blinded by Science, the Mathematics Behind Beauty.” Discover Magazine June 2007: Eden Dan. “What makes us beautiful?”. ViewZone Magazine Thursday 13 August 2009: Tolstoy Leone. The Kreutzer Sonata. Published 1889