All right, men, welcome back to the man talk show. I am Connor Vieten, and today we're

talking about what I have dubbed the ugly step-sister problem, one of the main issues with modern

dating and one of the things that you as a man should absolutely steer clear from.

Now for the sake of this, I'm going to be using a fairy tale or a myth to sort of portray what I am

talking about, largely because sometimes in myth and fairy tale, they hold these tremendous truths

about us as men or women, what we want from relationships, truths about

fundamental reality that are much larger than we can put into a single sentence. And they're

baked into stories. I like to think of myths oftentimes as a zip file that you can double click on

and it'll open up a huge data packet that helps you to understand something that maybe wasn't so

clear before. So let's look at Cinderella as an example. Cinderella has ugly step-sisters,

but Cinderella is the embodiment of the princess. She is the embodiment of the woman that men

really want and desire, even though she is not

a actual princess on paper. Cinderella is humble. She has good values. She is nurturing. She is kind.

She's not a noble. She's not born into anything that's necessarily special. She is a common girl with an

extraordinarily good heart. And while her ugly stepsisters, not necessarily ugly in looks or

ugly in their physical body, but actually ugly in character and personality, are very, very different.

You see, Cinderella's stepsisters are the embodiment of the entitled woman. They are overbearing,

they are indignant, they are deeply entitled to what they should have access to within men and

dating, and they act largely

without any kind of tether to morals, ethics, or values, yet the ugly stepsisters expect to be

chosen by the prince. Now, this is one of the major challenges that modern men are facing both within the dating world

and within long-term relationships, that there's a bit of an ugly step-sister problem.

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