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Back in the late 80s/early 90s, you could catch the science fiction television show Quantum Leap. It starred Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. And in Hollywood fashion, they’ve made a current reboot of the show.
I remember watching several episodes back in the day but don’t remember it having a very liberal point of view. Still, after researching this blog post, I found that a few writers/reviewers thought the show was somewhat liberal for its day. Honestly, I don’t remember it being liberal. I probably wasn’t looking for any sordid political angle, either. I was simply looking for some entertainment.
But last Monday, the reboot version decided it would jump into the woke trans movement.
We will not back down!
Catch #QuantumLeap TONIGHT 10/9c on NBC and streaming on @peacock. pic.twitter.com/lxOVQba0Bt
— NBC Entertainment (@nbc) February 6, 2023
At this point, it really isn’t shocking or surprising anymore, is it? The woke and anti-woman community is pushing disinformation into all walks of life. Or I should say, I do hope it is still shocking. I hope no one gets used to this ridiculousness.
Drag Queens story hour in schools, adolescent boys who pretend to be girls who are beauty influencers for Ulta, a male four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps dressing in a woman’s uniform (hosiery and all), college men breaking records in female sports. I mean, come on.
The Quantum Leap pro-trans episode was written, directed, and cast by an activist named Shakina Nayfack. Before today, I had never heard of this person.
Here is Shakina talking about her his experience in this Youtube video from E! Insider’s channel, with 188 views and 5 Likes at the time of this writing.
The headline from Breitbart News reads,
Trans Writer Pens NBC’s ‘Quantum Leap’ Reboot Episode Promoting Biological Males in Women’s Sports
Yep, you guessed it. The episode was about a biological male in high school who wanted to identify as a girl and play on the girls’ high school basketball team. Raymond Lee, who plays the new quantum physicist, Dr. Ben Song, “leaps” into the body of the girls’ high school basketball coach. And the boy who wants to be a girl is his son. Okay, got all that?
You really don’t need all the rest; you know what happens. I didn’t watch the episode. A few weeks back, however, I heard about the new reboot of Quantum Leap and was excited when I first heard about it. So much so that I started watching the old ones again so I could familiarize myself with the show because I had planned to watch the reboot. But not now. Nope. No thanks.
Come to find out, the episode tanked. The low ratings were blamed on the mid-winter break that television shows typically take. Yeah. Okay.
I’ll leave you with this from the Breitbart article linked above.
Naturally, the episode ends with Gia being warmly welcomed into the girls locker room and being treated as a full member of the team. Oddly, the year this episode is set, 2012, was years before the transgender athlete issue really heated up. It is also noteable that the series picked model and actress Josielyn Aguilera, a natural-born woman, to play a “transgender woman.”
So I guess we can see we have it both ways? Hiring a real woman to play a boy who wants to be a woman? I’m so confused.
But if you notice, everywhere you look and everywhere you read, it is all about the pro-trans movement. They are not going to stop.
If you want to do your trans thing as an adult, that’s your business. But leave the kids alone. I honestly think it’s too late.
Two thoughts: 1) have we lost our American kids to this movement, and 2) can the biological women (and I hate that I feel the need to put the word biological in front of the word woman) make a comeback?
Feature Photo: Clementp.fr, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
GWB says: If you want to do your trans thing as an adult, that’s your business.
Nope. Not if you’re not discreet about it and actually act as if you want to blend in. If you whip your junk out and pee standing up in the ladies’ room, then it’s no longer “your business”. Or if you want to compete against athletes of the other gender. Or if you want to partake of the benefits of affirmative action.
As to Quantum Leap being liberal? I’d say it was mildly progressive back in the day. It certainly leaned a bit in its choices for historical events to get involved in. But it was pretty close to balanced.
Carol Marks says: Very true. My bad. You caught me trying to bend. I hate that I typed that now. My apologies.
SFC D says: I watched the episode. I noticed that the “female” basketball player was consistently hitting long-distance 3-pointers that would normally be out of range for a biologically female player. Were they intentionally trying to showcase the unfairness of having a boy on the girls team?
Cameron says: Sometimes the best woman for a job is a man. -:-)
American Human says: I’m reminded of the movie Victor Victoria where Julie Andrews was a woman pretending to be a man who was a drag queen singer in Paris.
Poor James Garner was sure she was a beautiful woman and then the woman took off her wig to expose a man (but the whole time she was an actual woman). Confused?
Well the James Garner character figures it all out and he and the Julie Andrews character fall for each other but she doesn’t want him to ruin the gig because she is finally becoming famous and making money. So, he pretends to be gay and they go to gay bars and dance together as men. He gets tired of it and goes to a seedy bar and orders a glass of milk. Some French tough guy in the bar (I suppose there are some) leans over to him and asks if it is his mother’s milk. James leans right back and tells him, “No, it’s your sister’s milk!!” A big bar fight ensues which makes James feel like a man again. He ends up with a whole bunch of drinking buddies at the end.
Carol Marks says: Oh I have to add that to my list of movies to watch! I can’t believe I haven’t watched it yet.
Formerly known as Skeptic says: When the episode began, I thought that the crisis would be that the team was DQ’d due to allowing Gia to play (highlighted by the aforementioned game-winning 3-pointer). Kept wondering WHY they WEREN’T disqualified (remembering that this was ostensibly 2012). But they only went down the social aspect, but kept it “light” by portraying Gia as fully transitioned. Would “she” have been accepted into the locker room otherwise?
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