Sady Doyle on Liz Lemon’s Watered-Down Politics  Doyle, who blogs about gender and pop culture at Tiger Beatdown, offers a nimble, hilarious evisceration of Liz Lemon, Tina Fey’s character on 30 Rock. Though Liz pays lip service to feminism, Doyle says, she’s really more interested in “Liz Lemonism”: she cares about identity politics only to the extent that they affect her and women who agree with her. This is only one of the show’s feminist shortcomings, Doyle points out. Why doesn’t Liz have any close female friends? Why are we constantly told she’s ugly when “Tina Fey is, by any reasonable standard, hotter than fire”? Doyle finds a strain of “anti-feminist, anti-girl” sentiment in the way 30 Rock handles its female characters, and she’s not comfortable with it.