The Full Monty

As I was watching The Full Monty, I kept thinking about what Professor McGlynn was saying about the whole “who does the looking?” When the strippers were on stage, I never would have made the realization that women are still being objectified even though they are attempting to objectify a man when the camera was panning the floor while they were screaming.  When I was thinking about it later, I still couldn’t really think of any films I’ve watched where women were doing the objectifying.  I wonder if that’s even a possibility being that they’re still objectified in The Full Monty, a film that’s supposed to flip masculine and feminine ideologies on its head.  It’s interesting to think about this because if a male stripper is still able to objectify a woman whilst he is doing the stripping, then when would a woman be able to do the objectifying?    The scene where the three women use the men’s restroom and start talking and acting vulgarly doesn’t seem to criticize male behavior but only really makes a mockery of the women themselves as the woman in the ridiculous lime green outfit and tights urinates like a man.  So where exactly does female empowerment lie if it’s not even in The Full Monty, a film that shows men at their weakest and most vulnerable?