“What’s important to understand is that the women involved [in these cases] aren’t just victims,” says Everline Lubbers, one of the founders of the Undercover Research Group, which helped expose the effort. “They were also used for a higher end, to infiltrate networks that the British state felt were a threat. They were basically used as objects.”

Providing changing tables in public has largely followed parenting trends. They weren’t routinely added to public restrooms until the 1980s for women, either, who also used toilet seats, back seats, car trunks and filthy bathroom floors to get the job done. In part, it took urban planners simply realizing that mothers were spending less time out in public and keeping their dollars in their pocketbooks because they had to lug the entire family operation home every time someone had a full diaper.

"I feel like the film says as much about the world as it does about Fred. And I feel like people’s reactions to Fred — and our suspicions of somebody as nice as that — were the same battles Fred fought in his life, where people thought that he was corny, two-dimensional or naïve. He didn’t care about being called wimpy — he cared about being called trite or insubstantial. He was doing a show that I think of as simple and deep, and too many of us mistake simple for superficial and don’t appreciate the depth that was there."