This Salon Talks interview with Rebecca Traister dives into her newest book, “Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger,” discussing the timeline of her experiences with women’s fury in politics and the actions that were taken in policy to follow implications in politics. She explains the stigma of sexism being overblown corresponding to the power that women in our culture do currently hold across the country, and how these messages really prove that we have actually reached a society with gender equality.

In this interview, I learned a lot about the timeline of women’s rise to political power. Since I grew alongside of this rise, I feel as if I have grown oblivious to how much has changed, mostly because I was too young to understand what was happening most of the time. The central focus of this interview seems to be how the people that are in power, mostly White American men, fever anger in women due to the effort that politicians make to hush women and their opinions. Traister’s main call to action here is women should not suppress their anger; they should use their frustrations to act as a leading reasonable voice in order to make significant change that the world wants to see, and that others should take voices of anger with seriousness and respect, especially in politics.