It’s a good question. What is it, and why does it have an immense impact on the lives of women in today's society. ​Well when I typed this exact question into google, this is the answer I got:​

1.  A combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially sight.​​

But really it’s so much more than that. Beauty is this ideal look, that is completely unattainable yet constantly being striven for. Media has us believing beauty is not in the eye of the beholder. That there is something universal and genetic that suggests its something "we all recognize". Well you know what I say? It's okay to look normal!! ​​

In today's society, being beautiful seems to be the norm. Every magazine you look at, every commercial on TV, any ad, there is always the typical pretty girl face with a size 0 waist, its everywhere you go. This is portraying to women that there is no other way to live than to be absolutely perfect. So how do you get away from it? How are women supposed to rise about this? There is no wonder why by the age of 17, 78% of women are unhappy with their body, or 65% of women have eating disorders. 65% is over half... the worst part being that men control 97% of the media that women are falling subject to!​ No matter what a woman accomplishes in her life, it never fails to come down to how she looks. So what does that say about today's society? Patriarchy is the default setting.

Porn is today's sexual education for young males; this is teaching them there is not a wide range of “looks” a women can have, and that there’s only way to act, like the women in porn; skinny, sexy and down to fuck, and not opposed to letting the guy take control. And if they are not this way then the women simply aren’t interesting. Media is taking over the everyday lives of women, turning us into characters, rather than human beings. This is having a tremendous effect on the younger lives of women. 53% of 13 years old girls are unhappy with their body. But these statistics don’t seem to be enough to make society realize that porn cannot be sex education in today’s world and something needs to be. What’s it going to take?