Well, I'd always described myself as a feminist, but it seemed increasingly that my idea of what a feminist is was completely at odds with what professional feminists out there were doing and saying.
If we could see what men there were doing, how could we ignore that which was happening down the block or around the world?
I couldn't say anything in the book about my suspicions, but I was fairly sure that despite Cuba's obvious lack of resources, the third graders I filmed there were doing better in math than most American students I had observed.
The two policemen stationed there were doing their duty chiefly by waggling their fingers at incipient jaywalkers.
"I was watching MTV and trying to imitate what the guys on there were doing, and then I realised that a lot of the bands on there were terrible.
"At parent orientation, I ask parents to remember back to the 70's, when the baby boomers were so concerned that their parents not find out what there were doing," he said.
