Everything about them was more direct their insides weren't the maze women's were for the pee to find its way through

That is a description in a novel by John Updike who genuinely believed that Men were inherently better than peeing because men didn't have "mazes" inside of their bodies and could just pee at will. That's a description of how women are complicated even when peeing, and it's not satirical.

Starvation, debt, financial downfall.