Today’s podcast discussion deals with Dr. Anita Biressi’s podcast entitled “The importance of hearing the voices of ordinary women.” Dr. Biressi is a professor at the University of Roehampton which is located in London, England. The focus of the Dr.’s conversation relates to the importance of voicing the opinions and values of ordinary women who do not necessarily have the power to do so on their own. Unlike women who may be celebrities or politicians, ordinary women do not have tremendous power over influencing gendered associations and norms. This is rather problematic considering that your average day woman can be just as prolific in promoting gendered connotations in the public sphere as famous women yet more often than not simply lacks the resources to do so. If we think about the way society has defined gender, and everything that gender represents for being a woman, 99% of everything that women are pressured to think, feel, and experience are a product of what the influential women of our time have ingrained into the fabric of society. Not only is it unreasonable for all women to be expected to meet the standards of what women with authority have provided them in the realm of gendered expectations, it is also outright unfair. If the majority of women were allotted the ability to voice their opinions as common people, then society would function on a much more functional and sensible plane; furthermore, women would likely gain the confidence to act in ways they desire to rather than follow rigid gendered associations.