Love the expansive brush you paint with in the first paragraph. I'm sure no one would be up in arms if one of your male counterparts did precisely the same thing about women.
In Copenhagen, the women are square-jawed and straightforward and direct. In New York, they are either stylish but desperate corporate women in their 40s or 20-something teachers living in Brooklyn tenements. In Seattle, they are very wan, very aggressive, and very meh.
Make a porno for his film fest?