Today on Based Camp, Malcolm and Simone explore how menstrual cycle tracking has moved from apps into work planning and legal arguments. The discussion covers period trackers in games, cycle syncing for productivity, and historical court cases where PMS or postpartum issues were used to reduce charges for violent acts. The Collinses also examine ancient medical views on the uterus and modern debates over personal responsibility versus hormonal explanations. Episode Transcript Malcolm Collins: HELLO SIMONE! I’m excited to be here with you today. Today, we are going to be pulling on a thread that the Lindsay Casey case has unraveled to some extent, which is women in mass are claiming that women lack the intellectual or emotional capacity to act as normal people in society. Sure. Right? Like and and I, at first, thought, okay. If we are cordoning this off to just a very rare thing, like postpartum depression, which is what they’re claiming or postpartum psychosis. imone Collins:Like, okay. Then just let women werewolf like I do, right, whenever I give birth. I just lock myself away in the hospital. You drop me off at the beginning four days later. Malcolm Collins:Then I started to dig into it and Realized it’s actually normal for female organizations to do the same around regular parts of a woman’s menstrual cycle. My god. So it’s not just Oh, no. imone Collins:It’s not her. Malcolm Collins:Someone that you can get off for postpartum psychosis. You can also get off murdering children because you were on your period. Speaker 5:But, oh, dear. What’s this? One of the women is about to embarrass us all. The lady has foolishly attempted to join the conversation with a wild and dangerous opinion of her own. Women, know your limits. imone Collins:Wait. On your period or, like, PMS ing? Like, what what what part of the cycle do I have a get out of jail free card here? I need to know when I can time my Malcolm Collins:We’ll go into it. imone Collins:Okay. And Oh my gosh. Now that, like, your period tracking apps need to have, like, a now would be a great time if you need to commit a felony. Go ahead, girls. Malcolm Collins:Great time to commit a felony. That’s why they’re tracking you guys, don’t you know? We need to know when you’ve turned into ravenous monsters. imone Collins:Well, one of the big things with the app Love and Deep Space is included they added a period tracker. And then, like, the male companions on the app would be like, oh, what brand of, you know, sanitary napkin do you need? And, like, women were like, oh my god. He knows the difference between a daytime and a nighttime pad. Swoon. Like, women do seem to act different. Like, it actually was very well reviewed, the the period tracker. What is love in deep space? It’s that it’s that romance game. It was really big in in China and also in The United States. Malcolm Collins:Oh god. Oh, so this is anime character saying Yeah. imone Collins:It’s it’s like it’s like a romance game with, like, really, really beautiful men, and they added a period tracker to it fairly recently. And all the men who saw that this was added freaked out and were like, this is gooner nonsense. But, like, the women were just like, oh, like, he’s offering me a hot water bottle. Like, he’s gonna make like, he’s gonna cuddle with me and, like, tell me how sorry he is and and go to the store and buy me feminine napkins and ask me what brand I prefer. And they thought it was amazing. Speaker 3:But has the concept of women having choices gone too far? We’ve assembled this diverse panel of white men in bow ties to talk Gentlemen? imone Collins:But I really think, like, if that element of a period tracker inside an existing game works so well, they need to just really start beefing up existing period tracking apps. Like, now’s you know, you should commit a crime now. This is the period where you’re gonna be more attracted to hot guys. This is gonna be your best time to, like, date, you know, a cash cow and settle down with him. You know, like, just really max it out, you know, period maxing, cycle maxing. Actually, I read recently that there was this this new trend of cycle maxing where women were yes. I’m not kidding about this. Hold on. Hold on. Cycle Malcolm Collins:Women shouldn’t have jobs. Right? Like, we this is a how how are we still pushing for a female president, and cyclomaxing is a thing? imone Collins:Yeah. Hold on. News. Where did it go? It was, an actual like, women who were syncing their work schedule with their Malcolm Collins:their aggressive careers. imone Collins:Cycle maxing at work is an emerging social media term for using menstrual cycle tracking to adjust your workload, beatings, creative work, recovery, and sometimes food or exercise. It’s essentially cycle syncing reframed in optimization language. So what you’re supposed to do is track your mood and bleeding, etcetera, and then put all your demanding or public facing tasks, like presentations and negotiations and, like, your big work things on days when you are more likely to feel good, like, not PMS y, not bleeding, not cramping. And then you reserve your flexible, like, solo work or your work from home days for the days where you have cramps and PMS, you’re, like, kind of a terrible person. And then you should have, like, buffers to, like, avoid doing anything important, like major deadlines or travel or all day meetings on the days when you are So which one should Malcolm Collins:recognize this about themselves? imone Collins:Yeah. They’re like, oh. Malcolm Collins:We have a werewolf protocol. imone Collins:Yes. And They’re werewolf protocol. Yes. It’s exactly it. No. This is like, Malcolm Collins:you know, in the werewolf shows where they, like are, like, chain me up of all of the imone Collins:It’s like the modern version of this. Speaker 4:Mom, dad, can I come upstairs now? I’m sorry, son, but you’re a demon spawn now. You’re an abomination. Can I please just have something to eat? Well, I’m pretty hungry. It’s hungry. Yes. It must feed. what are you doing down here? There you go, son. Eat. What are we becoming? imone Collins:Like, it’s werewolves are real. They’re called women, and they literally have apps where they just, like, track their lunar calendar where they’re like, time to train myself up here. Okay. We got I’m sorry, girls. I can’t meet you for dinner. I can’t, you know, can’t book this work appointment now because I gotta cycle my Malcolm Collins:So this is this is gonna be the new thing in in werewolf dating books where the werewolf and the what the werewolf’s like, I’m sorry. It’s the night of the full moon. I have to be chained up in my house. And she goes, that’s so convenient. So do I. No. imone Collins:No. No. It’s supposed to be where the, you know, a very beautiful boyfriend asks her if she needs more daytime or nighttime pads because, apparently, that really gets girls going. Would you would you care about that, or Malcolm Collins:would you just be gross out of a guy? Look. imone Collins:Anyone who’s gonna help me with the bleeding stuff is welcome in my world. Malcolm Collins:Okay? Do you see you see all the imone Collins:we’re not gonna get into the details because I’m still dealing dealing with the miscarriage bleeding. Like, what, three weeks later? I’m like, anyone who’s willing to help me with that is my friend at this point because the amount of ruined clothing I have now. Well, not ruined. I just had to scrub things with a toothbrush for a very long time. Obviously, not one for my teeth, people. Jeez. Anyway Oh my. Malcolm Collins:I’m just gonna ask that out. Twitter person. I may be imone Collins:a female, gosh, I I cycle max, so it’s okay. I’m just under control. But, yeah, I guess if this is all true, right, if women are, like, getting this into their cycles and not only admitting this in the context of of legal trials, but also just literally building their lives around this expectation that, like, oh, yes. I have observed that I am insane and a terrible person on these days of the month and that I’m a functional human on these days of the month. This is not this is a very worrying trend because it’s like this admission of insanity, and I don’t like it. Malcolm Collins:But, like, all women know this. Like imone Collins:I mean, I don’t. As someone with amenorrhea who doesn’t have periods, I had no cycle to track. I I had no periods of insanity. My only experience with that is, like, giving birth and then having to deal with that hormonal fallout and then also giving myself exogenous hormones, which actually what’s really interesting too is when you see trans people take the same amount of hormones that, for example, I do, they also like to talk about at length, how they go crazy. Like, remember when Dylan Mulvaney started going on hormones and was like, I tried being a girl, and I just sat there and cried for a long time. I can’t remember her exact words. but do you remember this whole thing where she was like, I’m gonna be a girl for a day? And, like, the schedule was like, cry, go shopping, eat yogurt. Like, I can’t remember what it was, but it was really ridiculous. However, it is interesting that even when men start to experience the hormones that will hit women at various points in their cycles, they also report going crazy. In other words, typically, but, you know, that’s kind of disturbing. Malcolm Collins:but, no, I think it’s interesting with the tramp thing. That’s a good side point here. Is it like, we all accept that these people are getting crazy. Right? imone Collins:And Counterpoint, though. Women also report going crazy when they go on testosterone. So When they go where? On testosterone. But more mostly, it’s not like, I’m crying. It’s just like they wanna bang everything. Oh my god. I’m so horny. Malcolm Colli
