I used to watch it sporadically when it aired and started watching it from the begging now, just finishing 3th season. I knew it had racial/racist jokes but I’m shocked with the amount of transphic jokes it has. I tried to see if there were some discussion around it, but I only found a video from T1J focused on the racial content but he didn’t mention the transphobia even once.
Have she ever talk about that? Like acknowledging if was transphobic or something? Or is her writing still like that?
I think you’re just seeing a representation of the times compounded by 30 Rocks refusal to engage seriously with a single social issue. Not to downplay any of it but the racism in that show was very Obama-era Carlos Mencia “racism is funny not hateful” type of rhetoric. Definitely problematic at the time even if you ignore the longer-term consequences. Honestly every single of representation of social progress or liberation in 30 Rock is truly awful down to Liz Lemon Feminism™️.
Anyway I don’t think Tina’s writing is inherently hateful, it’s just lib as hell and she doesn’t want to actually try to engage with any real issue.