Kicker: Dating an ogre

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NICK EICHER, HOST: Okay, so they tell me there’s a new dating trend making headlines. It’s called “Shrekking.” And it comes from the animated film Shrek, where the leading lady falls in love with the title character—an ogre. The tradeoff is: accept ogre looks for a princely personality.

CHAN: The problem is it’s backfiring …

Amy Chan is author of Breakup Bootcamp:

CHAN: … these ogre-like guys are not treating women well, hence the word, getting “shrekked.”

So what’s a girl to do?

CHAN: The lesson here isn’t to only date conventionally attractive people, but to develop better skills for assessing someone’s value, character, emotional availability, regardless of what package they come in.

In other words, forget Shrek and maybe look to 18th-century literature, The Vicar of Wakefield: handsome is that handsome does.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Haha. I bagged both.

EICHER: It’s The World and Everything in It.

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