The Tao of Steve

****Spoilers****

A self proclaimed fat pig, Dex, played by Donal Logue is an articulate and charming overweight kindergarten teacher. Dex was a philosophy major and has learned the art of attracting women by using three rules which he calls The Tao of Steve; be cool, be excellent in her presence, and be gone.

Like most men who want to attract the average bimbo, this works for Dex. But it is not until he starts to realize that only when he is being the best person he can be, does he start to attract the real women. Unfortunately for most men, they don’t get the second chance that Dex gets with the one woman from college that was his soul mate.

The movie makes some pretty good points. Takes you back to your dating years. At one point Dex is having dinner with “the girl” and his friends and someone makes the comment that men want a girl with Lucille Ball’s personality and Rachel Welch’s face and body. As someone who identifies more with Lucille Ball than Rachel Welch, I have to say to those men, good luck…I hope that has worked out well for you. Being who I am has never been a problem for me...Ethel and I have never had a problem getting a date on a Friday night.

As we grow older and wiser, we realize as women that the men who “retreat” in order to attract us, in the end just bore us to death. They are too insecure with who they are to put it out there on the table. While they are still playing games, we are moving on to the real men who are honest and know a good Lucy when they find one.