On the latest 30 Rock episode, Elisa wants to talk to Jack about "where their relationship is going". Jack goes to Liz and tells her that Elisa wants to have "woman talk". Liz replys, "Women really suck, don't they?"
This is saying that it is stereotypical for women to want to know exactly where the relationship is going while men would rather not talk about it and let things go on as they are. Women need to know where things stand and where they are going. This also happened in a Friends episode where Ross's girlfriend wants to know where the relationship is going. He sticks a piece of salt water taffy in his mouth in order to buy time to try to think of something to say. Men hate this conversation because they like to live in the moment and not define something.
In the same 30 Rock episode, Elisa bursts into the room where Jack and his business colleauges are trying to sort out a business emergency. One man says, "Who is this woman? Why isn't anyone shutting her up?"
This is sending the messgae that men have more power over women and that they are allowed to say disrespectful comments like that. If a woman had said that about a man, there would be an uproar. When the man says this it is showing that society accepts that men are in control over women and they can get away with making sexist comments like that.
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