Having won 28 awards in the past two years, 30 Rock is quickly becoming America's new favorite sitcom. This week I watched the newest episode, A Retreat to Move Forward, and found many nods to femininity and masculinity once again. First, Jenna learns that she will be playing Janice Joplin in an upcoming film and has vowed as an actress to "become the role". One of the shows writers suggests to Jenna that she should use Wikipedia as one of her sources to find out just how Janice Joplin would act. Jenna feels this is a great idea, meanwhile Frank changes the information on Wikipedia to say crazy things about Joplin. Being the woman that Jenna is, she does exactly what Wikipedia tells her to do to become Janice Joplin, inevitably making a fool of herself. I believe that 30 Rock is showing feminism by using Jenna as the stereotypical "dumb blonde". Most people would believe that a woman, especially an actress, would do whatever she was told no matter how crazy it sounded. Also I believe 30 Rock is showing masculinity by having Frank feel that whatever he says will be listened to by the woman, simply because she will not question.
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