Dick Responds: The Mid-Wife Crisis

Marriage is a daily compromise of your money, time, and happiness for the senseless whims of some unpredictable bitch who stopped maturing when she started menstruating.

Short version: Fuck marriage.

Today, I have a new reason why none of you men should get married. And that reason comes from the last place you would ever expect: Oprah Magazine.

Gentlemen, I present the Mid-Wife Crisis. Get ready to see a journalist package self-loathing and selfishness as introspection — and then sell that shit to the dumbest bunch of cows on Earth: readers of Oprah Magazine.

Read this for a reason to say, “I don’t.”

This post is a reply to an article published in Oprah Magazine entitled, “She’s happily married, dreaming of divorce.

What is a Mid-Wife Crisis?

Oprah Magazine calls a “Mid-Wife Crisis” a “period of high irritation” lasting “one to two decades”, in which a married woman is nagged by lingering regrets over her marriage. During this time she constructively “resents the shit out of her husband”, “acts like a little cunt”, and “makes life bitchy and miserable for anyone who gives a shit about her stupid ass.” One to two decades? That means your average Oprah wife is a grumpy, passive-aggressive princess for twice as long as her average marriage!

A “Mid-Wife Crisis” can more easily be explained as every man’s worst nightmare: a sexless marriage that can only be solved by writing a big fucking check.

Today, I’m going to explore this phenomenon as experienced by Ellen Tien of Oprah Magazine. I’m sure you will see (as I have) that all this bullshit is nothing more than the half-assed rantings of a neurotic, 30-something whore who thinks her husband owes her personal happiness.

Your husband is not your personal fucking Santa Claus, Ellen. It’s not his fault you’re miserable. It’s just his fault you have a roof over your head while you pout. Happiness is like orgasms. If you don’t work for it, you don’t get any.

How Can I Have a Mid-Wife Crisis?

In her shitty article, Ellen quotes a small sample of minor grievances and narcissistic assumptions as evidence to support her husband’s general “crapness”. In theory, it is the forced acceptance of this “crapness” through publishing that ultimately validates her own projected feelings of worthlessness. But I’ll get to that later.

“I contemplate divorce every day. It tugs on my sleeve each morning when my husband, Will, greets me in his chipper, smug morning-person voice, because after 16 years of waking up together, he still hasn’t quite pieced out that I’m not viable before 10 a.m.” -Ellen Tien

Fuck you, bitch. Get out of bed and be glad someone wants to see your fucked-up, ugly ass before Maybelline takes ten years off.

Cunt Buttons

“Not being a morning person” is what I call a Cunt Button. And it’s a collection of these arbitrary Cunt Buttons that make up every woman’s personality. For example, some women “really care about the environment”. That’s a Cunt Button. If you hit it, said girl will act like a total bitch because you left the faucet running for thirty seconds while you brushed your fucking teeth. Big deal. If saving Mother Earth is so important, why don’t you turn your car off at stop lights?

Because women are never cunts to themselves.

Not being a “morning person” is another Cunt Button; one that is commonly found alongside a fanatically practiced morning coffee routine and a confusion between confidence and arrogance. They hand these out in a combo pack at the same place women pick up their Barbie Briefcases. It’s no surprise that Ellen has the first at least!

Fuck your husband for wanting to see you in the morning, right honey? I’m with you. He fucked up by marrying your ass in the first place. Just look at the difference a ring makes.

Married Women Are Old

Here’s another gem.

“…with our 21st-century access to youth …we are still visually tolerable if not downright irresistible when we’re 30 or 35 or 40.” -Ellen Tien

False. None of you fucking broads are worth shit after 26. I’ll humor you to get head. I’ll say whatever it takes to fuck. But not one of you is irresistible. You’re just desperate. To girls with a choice, there’s a difference.

A woman’s self-esteem is maintained by continually burning cash — sometimes by shoving it directly into her ass. Once they’ve been married for a few years, women are so desperate for a free drink, they’ll let any loser with a credit card line up some shots. That’s the grace and beauty of an unmarried 40 year old woman.

Don’t Eat Shit

“Marriage and its cruel cohort, fidelity, are a lot to expect from anyone, much less from swift-flying us.” -Ellen Tien

Women all want to see themselves as whatever would happen if you bred Lucy Lawless with Tina Fey. Some Amazonian freak who’s inner strength was matched only by her inner beauty which was also matched by her inner irresistible quirkiness. And this myth of the over-acheiving, hyper-independant Woman 2.0 is never more prevalent as it is in journalism.

The truth is, women are just as incompetent today as they were fifty years ago. And they’re ten times as desperate for a man. Fuck, today’s modern girl considers herself a spinster at the age of 23. As well she should! If she hasn’t gotten at least one proposal before daddy’s done paying for college, panic sets in like crows feet.

Infidelity and the Call of the Slut is the last refuge of a desperate woman trying to convince herself that she’s having a good time. Women hate sex. It’s easy for them to get and since men will pay for it, it’s a loss if they don’t cash in on the highest bid.

Calling women sluts when they sleep around is like calling Mike Tyson a dickhead for beating up a random guy. Yes ladies, we get it. You’re great boxers. But you’re still fucking sluts. Men sleeping around is like a new Rocky sequel. You know he’s gonna win, but he’s still gonna work his goddamn ass off.

Children: Tools To Shame

“I watch in frustration as my son desperately tries to talk to Will through a newspaper or computer screen or whatever other large, flat surfaces fathers place between themselves and filial communication, and yet I know in my heart that I would be mightily hard-pressed to remove this father from his son’s house.”

Fuck you, Ellen. Children talk about dumb bullshit all day. You can listen to every forth sentence and still know exactly what they’re talking about. If it’s not some goddamn toy they want, it’s some goddamn toy they don’t like. And if it’s not that then it’s something they want attention for. Maybe constant attention isn’t something today’s children need.

When you tell children everything they shit out is a work of art, they turn into mumbling, mush-mouth little pussies who can’t deal with real life. Ellen, you don’t even know how to be a mother properly so shut your goddamn pie hole. Why not learn the basics of motherhood before trying your Papa Hat on and internationally criticizing a man who’s doing a perfectly fine job of ignoring your chatty little brat.

How to be a Mother:

Rule #1 Don’t Remove the Fucking Father

Children without fathers are 100% more likely to fail than their fatherful brethren. We all know that Genius is 1% Inspiration and 99% Perspiration. But what we don’t know is that Perspiration is 1% having seen the movie Die Hard and 99% having a fucking father around to piss you off. That’s what fathers do. They make you a little pissed off and that makes you kick ass.

“But what if the father is abusive, Dick! That makes your generalized statement wrong in one extreme case, you gay queer. How does it feel to be wrong? Call me!”

If the father is abusive, so is the mother. How the fuck do you think he got there? Either way the kid’s fucked.

Fuck You, Ellen Tien

The real reason all you selfish, con artist wives out there “silently” resent your husbands for one to two decades is because you’re disappointments as wives and mothers and you fucking know it. Get him before he gets you. That’s the game. And there’s no more womanly way to do that than by keeping track of minor grievances.

But you’re women. Why realize any of this and fix it when you could just blame the nearest man, take half his money, and get some dick on the side when circumstances get beyond your control. Right, Ellen? When Oprah Magazine is your conscience, you can sign your own report card.

You know what, don’t, “Fuck you, Ellen Tien.” You’re just a writer filling pages between tampon ads of an emotional smut rag targeted towards the world’s biggest cash cow: American women. Don’t get me wrong, women all over the world are just as stupid as American women — and hate responsibility just as much — there just aren’t as many of them and international distribution is a pain in the ass.

Oprah

Instead, fuck you Oprah. I fucked your psychiatrist. I’ll fuck you too.

Marriage is Retirement for Women

The reason not-so-happily married women don’t work for their own happiness is because women see marriage as retirement.

That’s why the number of bridal magazines outnumber finance magazines 140 to 97. They’re both covering the same thing: retirement, women just need extra instruction. Men are better than women.

Manclusion: The “Good Woman”

Dr. Phil told me that all I needed was a “good woman” and I would shut my ass up — and possibly feel stupid for saying so many hilarious and 100% true things all these years. I want all you men to look at the woman who wrote this article. She’s clearly “good” enough to maintain a job as a writer. She’s clearly “good” enough to not be swinging around a pole for dollar bills ya’ll. She’s clearly “good” enough to think she’s not a skank. But how good is a “good” woman really?

Any woman with a Mid-Wife Crisis is a petulant little bitch who can’t accept that being happy isn’t someone else’s responsibility. It’s not a husband’s responsibility to make his fucking wife happy. It’s a husband’s responsibility to not act like a dickhead on purpose.

Apparently, a “good woman” isn’t good enough to realize that. Way to go Phil. You really fucking nailed that one.

She’s happily married, dreaming of divorce.
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Comment by Dino
2008-08-29 08:07:20 - IP Man-Hash: 4548efa4cc2ac

Just want to say, this is one of your most awesome articles, so much truth. Thanks.

Comment by Bravo!
2008-08-31 16:17:19 - IP Man-Hash: e79bbbb6f2d40

I bet your smelly little penis is feeling a lot better, huh, scumboy? LOL
What an arse you are, retard. LOL

Comment by Joseph James Frantz
2008-08-31 22:48:26 - IP Man-Hash: 843c6f66c2e88

Only one good insult in all of these. I said in that instance you almost convinced me you are a man.

 
 
 
Comment by Dr. Rob
2008-08-29 06:22:20 - IP Man-Hash: c8dafc6eafdf1

Two of my patients have read both the original article and Dick’s response. One, a happily married woman, agreed with Dick. The other, a pseudo-happily married man, agreed with the original author. Puzzling.

Comment by Dick Masterson
2008-08-29 10:59:57 - IP Man-Hash: d0cccfe7ceafd

Sounds like that guy is a misogynist.

-Dick

Comment by DickFan
2008-08-29 12:17:12 - IP Man-Hash: 58126eab5b835

You crack me up. I raised my glass of beer tonight and cheered with my friends at the bar in your name. None of them had heard of your website, but the only guy in the crowd said, I want to check this out. <3 Who wouldn’t?

On an unrelated note, the best thing in this world is good friends. And alcohol. And maybe some other things that I’ll leave unidentified.

Comment by DickFan
2008-08-29 12:19:32 - IP Man-Hash: 58126eab5b835
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Comment by Muzalon
2008-08-29 23:36:19 - IP Man-Hash: 7ef64dc45ee81

Are you kidding? That knob-twiddling sub-Kraftwerk shit was out of date in 19-fuckin-80.

 
Comment by Muzalon
2008-08-30 11:00:45 - IP Man-Hash: 7ef64dc45ee81

Are they Australian? Australians are so shit at music, art or any other kind of creative activity, it’s not even funny. OMD were doing music like that in 1979, only a million times better.

My guess is you’re Australian too, which is why you think like a convict. Strewth…

 
Comment by Commander Scott
2008-08-30 11:07:31 - IP Man-Hash: 8292fb1246b05

I still find it hard to believe that AC/DC and Bon Scott’s vocals were ever popular…

 
Comment by Muzalon
2008-08-30 11:13:02 - IP Man-Hash: 7ef64dc45ee81

Australians are such a loser nation, right there. I think that Monty Python sketch about the Australian philosophy professors kind of sums the country up: ridiculous.

The only good thing Bon Scott ever did was overdose.

 
Comment by Commander Scott
2008-08-30 11:25:43 - IP Man-Hash: 8292fb1246b05

All Western nations, especially those where Anglo-Saxon culture has been assimilated by the majority, are female-dominated tyrannies and are therefore loser nations.

 
Comment by Muzalon
2008-08-30 11:30:00 - IP Man-Hash: 7ef64dc45ee81

You’re not kidding. Matriarchies are by definition loser nations.

 
 
 
Comment by Female
2008-08-30 02:15:04 - IP Man-Hash: 462d9b9729322

you’d know

Comment by SMashy
2008-08-30 07:27:13 - IP Man-Hash: 27ef3ad9828cd

a cunt

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Comment by Bravo!
2008-08-31 16:08:27 - IP Man-Hash: e79bbbb6f2d40

Child-raping pervert. Like your scum daddy. Put a bullet in that shit’s head, please? :)

 
 
 
 
 
Comment by Kovacs
2008-08-29 05:52:08 - IP Man-Hash: d3170fdd03e9d

In the article she bitches about her husband hitting her with the car after dropping her off. He said “what are you doing here?” #1 Every guy on here knows to cross BEHIND a car to avoid being hit by it when it is in gear. Perhaps he meant why the fuck did you cross in front of the car you stupid bitch? #2 He should have floored it!

Comment by Sal
2008-08-31 02:25:26 - IP Man-Hash: e4aecb0121c22

I’m almost positive that the grievances she mentions are fabricated.

Either that, or it’s her own fault for not realising she was marrying Homer Simpson.

Comment by Arbalest
2008-08-31 07:04:19 - IP Man-Hash: 8463b92aa6c53

A bitch like that, I bet he wanted to run her over and then decided she wasn’t worth it.

Comment by Joseph James Frantz
2008-08-31 15:36:21 - IP Man-Hash: 843c6f66c2e88

I am with Sal on this one.

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Comment by Kovacs, your father should have killed you at birth.
2008-08-31 13:04:35 - IP Man-Hash: e79bbbb6f2d40

Let me guess, ugly, fat, stupid and repulsive to decent people. Why live, you sub-human crud? ROFLOL

Comment by Joseph James Frantz
2008-08-31 15:36:43 - IP Man-Hash: 843c6f66c2e88

L2AC/GI

 
 
 
Comment by McCoy
2008-08-29 04:02:40 - IP Man-Hash: ed87cad94e8da

I’ve read every single one of your articles and there’s no denying; you are absolutely right. This article is one of your highlights even. It is so fucking true.

Me and my twin boys are also victim of some dumb bitch’s mid-wife crisis. The selfish she-devil eventually got me before I even contemplated the possibilities of getting rid of her.

Thanks Dick. You’re an inspiration.

p.s. I´ve hated tattoos my whole life but from today I´m seriously thinking about inking this rule #1 in bold across my forehead. It’s pure gold right there.

Comment by McCoy molests his twins
2008-08-31 13:01:36 - IP Man-Hash: e79bbbb6f2d40

Hey, loser boy, don’t take your problems out on those innocent children now. Not their fault their father is a fucked up piece of shit. :)
What sharp objects did your sick crud of a father beat you with as a child, McCoy, or was that piece of shit in prison for doing sick things to children? LOL

Comment by Sal
2008-08-31 13:53:12 - IP Man-Hash: 5df6f6fd6cd51

Why would you BEAT someone with a SHARP object?

Comment by Joseph James Frantz
2008-08-31 15:37:15 - IP Man-Hash: 843c6f66c2e88

Sal it’s another case of L2AC/GI

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Comment by Bravo!
2008-08-31 15:57:44 - IP Man-Hash: e79bbbb6f2d40

Nazi

 
 
 
 
 
Comment by Matty
2008-08-29 00:18:49 - IP Man-Hash: 37e6c3bef4774

lol women are not only cunts but lazy whores where they expect their husband to light the fire and cook dinner after he has been working 12 hours to keep a roof over her head

oh btw
“Marriage is Retirement for Women” hehe its more than retirement as when you retire you have fuck all money ;)

Comment by You're a piece of shit like your father, dude
2008-08-31 12:56:00 - IP Man-Hash: e79bbbb6f2d40

Matty, ugly retarded shit, marriage is WORK for women. They are the ones working their asses off AND raising the children to boot because ugly, lazy idiots like you sit on your asses all day.
I doubt a lazy shit like YOU has worked a good 12 hours in a year, let alone a day, shit.

Now run along and get some exercise, hard-working women are tired at looking at your obese, stinking ass, boy. :)

 
Comment by Somebody neuter Chris.
2008-08-31 13:38:14 - IP Man-Hash: e79bbbb6f2d40

PLEASE

 
 
Comment by Hans
2008-08-28 21:13:34 - IP Man-Hash: e544b57eac9b7

I nominate Vagy for the “MABTW Energizer Bunny Award”. She produces silly sounds and just doesn´t stop.
Only good thing is that she enables such awesome rants as by SMashy. Venting on teh internetz is much better and healthier than expressing that frustration in RL. Go SMashy.

 
Comment by Arbalest
2008-08-28 21:09:12 - IP Man-Hash: 058636bad7107

I was already sold when Oprah supported her. Come on, anyone supported by Oprah has got to be at least as half as fucked up as she is.

 
Comment by Kyle
2008-08-28 20:44:16 - IP Man-Hash: 008f1cd79e3bd

Amazing article Dick. I felt fuckin sick reading through that bitch’s inane ramblings. The fact that she was pissed off her husband was happy to see her in the morning… She’s just upset he’s happy, and content. Although how that could be, living with such a cunt is beyond me. Fuck, this guy needs to smarten up, and smack this bitch around a little bit.
Either way, another masterful article, and great job Dick dissmeninating this whorish bit of PMSing drivel.

 
Comment by Matt
2008-08-28 18:11:12 - IP Man-Hash: e5ad81745f47e

“…having a fucking father around to piss you off. That’s what fathers do. They make you a little pissed off and that makes you kick ass.”

Dick this statement is spot on and it hit home for me. I work for my dad and even when im busting my ass he tells me to “stop standing around and picking my nose”. It fucking pisses me off big time but ultimately i work harder and get the job done faster perhaps in spite of this. Keep up with the good work Dick!

 
Comment by Dillard T. Wanker
2008-08-28 16:32:41 - IP Man-Hash: a417a85c9df64

Dick Master-Piece!

Comment by Chris
2008-08-28 16:35:55 - IP Man-Hash: 8fdae3316d084

DICK MASTERPIECE IS RIGHT!!

This is one my favorite articles ever.

“If saving Mother Earth is so important, why don’t you turn your car off at stop lights? Because women are never cunts to themselves.”

Bravo.

 
 
Comment by Neil
2008-08-28 15:11:53 - IP Man-Hash: cf6f2b8557902

Re: Ellen Tien’s Article

What I gather from this woman’s long winded rant is that, other than in anticipation of Wedding Day, women really feel the same way about marriage as most men do - Fuck Marriage!

So what’s the problem? I say men and women should just fuck, and if said intercourse produces a child, then the father should pitch in half for the child’s (actual) support, which is about 1000 times less than what women actually embezzle through a typical divorce settlement, or by staying married and sitting on their fat asses posing as housewives doing nothing.

Oh yeah, and the father should be responsible for teaching the child (boy or girl) how not to act like a raving cunt, a responsibility to be implicitly understood as a rite of manhood. This may not stop little girls from behaving like raving cunts anyhow, but Daddy’s fatherly influence may lessen the blow. All women have an Oedipus complex.

I’m also a firm supporter of harems for the same reasons I oppose marriage. Harems are still more financially and socially advantageous to the male than any number of ill gotten marriages. Plus, you can nail a number of women simultaneously without repute. It only becomes a matter of how many women you can afford, and are willing to tolerate at your disposal.

 
Comment by nadie
2008-08-28 15:07:56 - IP Man-Hash: 076c38024c312

Show this to every idiot who wants to marry and win some manpoints.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-3xDl1S7es

 
Comment by docraver
2008-08-28 14:43:36 - IP Man-Hash: 0c7ef152e40e3

marriage is the legalisation of male slaves for women, guys don’t fall for the schemes of women into believing it’s something else, marriage is 1 of the biggest mistakes you can make in your entire life!

Comment by Kovacs
2008-08-29 21:38:51 - IP Man-Hash: d3170fdd03e9d

Read ‘The Manipulated Man’ for more about this very subject. It’s written by honorary man, Esther Vilar. And you guessed it, she has endured the same barrage of death threats as Dick since it was published.

Here’s a gem from her book. A rare instance when a woman speaks the truth.

“Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves. As compensation for their labours men are given periodic use of a woman’s vagina.”

Put it on your bookshelf next to MABTW.

Comment by Arbalest
2008-08-29 22:09:31 - IP Man-Hash: 06ee3a0055303

It’s a shame real women like her are so rare. Instead we get these punks claiming how strong they are like poodles barking at a thunderstoom ouside.

 
 
 
Comment by Nikarestus
2008-08-28 14:17:12 - IP Man-Hash: 6c86fd178015d

such manly comments!

 
 
Comment by Mysanthrope
2008-08-28 13:33:56 - IP Man-Hash: 4966529d73ad3

Personally, I’ve come to realize that women don’t even want marriage, they just want the wedding. Women want the dress, flowers, church bells and ring, and they’ve already made their minds up about it before they even find a man to trick into going along with it, but they seem to not realize what marriage truly means. Action without the faintest forethought of consequence is the hallmark of female behavior:

Promiscuous sex while trying to maintain moral ground by being pro-life?
You end up knocked up and left behind… but it’s the man’s fault.

Blowing your credit by not paying student loans, bills, while spending loads on useless shit like purses to fit a rat in and Iphones?
Stuck in a crappy apartment in the crappy part of town with three other bitches, all going at each other’s throats.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It’s a basic law of physics and life. Men invented physics AND life so we’ve known this for quite some time. As a matter of fact, we’ve known this for ALL of time. Women can’t grasp this. Every woman says how “men are all the same” and that we “never change”, so by your very logic the same jackass you complain about waking up next to every morning was the same guy you dated and tricked into chaining you to his ankle.

Men have a term for that.

Cognitive dissonance.

 
Comment by Karl
2008-08-28 13:10:49 - IP Man-Hash: 8611c0423a19a

Excellent article. Not the one by the woman, of course, that one was retarded.

 
Comment by Skoolbus
2008-08-28 13:04:36 - IP Man-Hash: 2b3353bfc794a

Right on! Dick, this is great! Love your writing, hate your voicemail segment… why? Well, because you make points with people’s responses that sound like ho-dunk white trash bumpkins. You needs some anonymous business men or men with power and respect. Not fat ass Ted who works as a giz moper or a 12 year old kid who’s a smart ass that hasn’t been laid yet. Cool!? Thanks.

Comment by Joseph James Frantz
2008-08-28 19:45:35 - IP Man-Hash: 4bca0c5dc8cb7

Skoolbus, I’ve thought about this for a while. I actually really like the voice mail segments, when MEN are talking. But it ends up being tirade after tirade of stupid women, not a one with anything useful or original to say. If Dick paused and then commented, that would be excellent.

But, his writing skills are fuckin’ legendary. So I’m glad he’s back to hitting this shit. I think we all are. Maybe instead of a podcast of the stupid bitches, you could do a live podcast Dick. Or even recorded, just without the broads.

Comment by Mik3_D
2008-08-29 05:04:29 - IP Man-Hash: e0f0a45876d85

That sounds like the “Dick in your ear” segments but he hasn’t done on of those for awhile.

 
 
 
Comment by no manhole
2008-08-28 13:02:16 - IP Man-Hash: 659b0a4fcc7b6

I’m pretty horrified by this woman Tien, and it was published in Oprah’s rag, making me hate her even more. Fuck, if women are going to evaluate us in this way, they sure as hell better not get fat. Not much reason to get married.

 
Comment by Jake
2008-08-28 12:59:28 - IP Man-Hash: c4a2e14e7faa7

Great article Dick , as always.

Keep up the good work.

 
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