Another day, another new dating trend! Last week, we covered “ monkey-barring .” Today, let’s talk “Shrekking.” Yes, that’s Shrekking as in Shrek, the famed ogre himself. And while we all love Shrek (or, at the very least, I think we all love Shrek 2, which is obviously among the greatest films of the 21st century), I’m afraid this dating trend is not using his namesake in a particularly flattering manner.

As a dating term, ”Shrekking” refers to dating someone you consider below your standards, with the assumption that because you’re out of this person’s league, you’ll automatically have the upper hand in the relationship and will be unlikely to get hurt. To “get Shrekked” is to strategically “date down” in this manner, only to still wind up getting rejected, heartbroken, and/or oth

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