The framing matters, so here it is plainly. The video is not gaming commentary. Asmongold spent it reacting to a thirteen-minute argument that women's suffrage was a mistake, told his audience 'this might be the best video I've ever seen in my life,' and said he would link it [1]. It drew 439,226 views, more than any other clip in the day's sweep [1].
The source video's proposition is that women 'have not occupied the essential jobs that keep society running.' Asmongold offers supporting evidence from memory: 'Wasn't there a day that all the women in a country decided to not go to work, and then nothing changed?... Yeah, it was in Iceland. Yeah, yeah, there you go,' and, of the outcome, 'nothing happened' [1].
He has the country right.
The Icelandic Women's History Archive, the national repository for this material, records what happened on 24 October 1975. 'Ninety precent of all women in the nation stopped working' [2].
The effect, in the archive's own list: 'Day nurseries were closed. Elementary and secondary schools were closed. All the big shops, the milk shops, the factories of the fishing industry and the theaters were closed' [2].
The fishing industry was, at the time, the backbone of the Icelandic economy. Its factories stopped. Schools shut, which meant fathers brought children to work. From an account in the archive: 'There we stood, shoulder to shoulder, 30,000 women' [2]. Iceland's population then was around 220,000 - roughly one in seven people in the entire country was at that rally.
The Women's Day Off is famous precisely because it worked. It is cited to this day as the demonstration that the answer to 'what if they all stopped' is 'everything stops.' He named the one event most often used to make the opposite of his point, and reported its outcome backwards.
A second number in the same video is worth correcting, because it is a smaller error of the same kind. The source narrator cites a fifteen-point gender gap on abortion. Pew Research Center, in March 2026, put it at nine - 64 percent of women and 55 percent of men saying abortion should be legal in all or most cases - and described that as 'as wide as we've seen in the last two decades' [3].
The real gap is at a two-decade high, and it is still six points smaller than the one he asserted.
