Episode Details

In this eye-opening Based Camp episode, Malcolm and Simone Collins dismantle one of the biggest historical myths pushed by both feminists and modern “trad” circles: the idea that women historically stayed home doing minimal work while men did everything.

Using cross-cultural evidence from hunter-gatherer societies, medieval Europe, Vikings, Spartans, ultra-Orthodox Jews, Islamic traditions, Africa, Latin America, India, China, Japan, and colonial America — plus genetic evidence from modern birds — they reveal the real division of labor: women handled the majority of reliable, grueling calorie production, farming (pre-plow), management, textiles, marketing, and household economy, while men focused on high-risk, high-reward activities like warfare, raiding, politics, and innovation.

They introduce the “Sword and Shield” model of relationships and explain how the industrial era, plow, and wage labor flipped traditional dynamics. A must-watch for anyone interested in real history, gender roles, and escaping modern cultural brainwashing.

Episode Transcript

Simone Collins: [00:00:00] The researchers say the finding is clear, but the reason behind it is still unknown. On average, men were able to get about one meter, 3.3 feet closer than women before the birds took off. This pattern appeared consistently across Czechia, France, Germany, Poland, and Spain.

It also held true across 37 species so Malcolm immediately turns to me and he’s like, “We know exactly why this is the case.”

Malcolm Collins: Yes. This is the question that explains everything we’re going to talk about today, and I think proves without a doubt that this is not some malcolm malcolmnipulation of historical facts. You have been in rural Latin America, right?

Simone Collins: Yes.

Malcolm Collins: Take an image in your head.

Simone Collins: Okay.

Malcolm Collins: You’re driving down a rural road. You look out the side of a car, okay? You see somebody with a 60 pound jug of something on their head.

Simone Collins: Oh, it’s a woman, obviously. Yeah.

Malcolm Collins: Always a woman.

Simone Collins: Always, always a woman. Yes.

Malcolm Collins: you go to Africa, you’ll see this as well. You go to-

Simone Collins: China too. Let’s be clear. China too. Right.

Malcolm Collins: Yeah. ‘

Was it majority women doing the [00:01:00] harder labor when you’re-

Simone Collins: Yeah,

Malcolm Collins: 100%.

Yeah. Yeah. D-

Simone Collins: Yeah.

Malcolm Collins: Guys, you do not know how brain cucked you are if, if a woman has convinced you, “ We just need to go back to the traditional way and I’ll stay at home and you do all this stuff.” Because you’re so strong, look at your muscles, could you open this jar for me? All you see as a woman, I could just never do anything.

Would you like to know more?

Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone. Today I’m going to talk to you about the most diabolical brainwashing mind trick that feminists and women have ever pulled on males in human society.

And it is that I will hear diet in the wool, males who identify as misogynist, red pill, post pickup artists, trads, go out there and say, “Well, we need to go back to the way things used to be, where women didn’t work and stayed in the household [00:02:00] and just cared for kids.” And I see their wives behind their fans with their villainous faces going.

Speaker 5: あ。

Simone Collins: oh my God.

Malcolm Collins: Their villainous laugh. Tucked their husband’s brains and their husbands believe that historically wom