Yeah. Sam was still Sam. It made things really interesting when he jumped into the pregnant woman, and was still male, but pregnant.

I was never fond of All in the Family, but it was written as social commentary, with self-awareness that those epithets were inappropriate. IIRC, the rape victim episode of Quantum Leap was the same intent. "Yes, people are that stupid. Here, let us hit them over the head with television commentary on it being stupid."