Many women view themselves in the third person

Huh that it is really fascinating! I do view memories of myself from the third person. Never realized that others may not.

Wow very interesting, I've always had memories seeing myself in third person, as well my dreams are in third person. My boyfriend has dreams seeing through his eyes and I always thought it was something random.

Men do this too. It's a human thing not an inherently, or socially applied, female thing. Many people, male and female, view their dreams and memories from both the first and third person. I'm not sure if this is to do with the difference between accurate recall of memories vs the recall of what you THINK is a memory and is mainly a recreation of what you THINK the memory should be. Sometimes in dreams people (men and women) don't experience themselves at all and basically have a narrative dream which they play no part of except as spectator.

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Rabbit-hole philosophy often leads to thought experiments and explorations that after a while have no real relevance to reality but support a certain political or personal view. Kind of like confirmation bias.

From what I understand, Atwood’s theory can be summarized as this: Women have been represented as sexual objects throughout history. The female image was created for men to be be consumed by men. We are constantly being viewed as attractive objects, and being sexualized. Her theory suggests that this constant “male gaze” has affected how women view themselves. Therefore, women are their own voyeur because we “gaze” upon ourselves (in the third person).

Here is a quote from the book for reference: “Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur”.

Ok this has blown my mind..

I think I have some mild form of aphantasia, so I really don't picture my memories in any way. I just kind of...remember the facts about what happened, although I guess what I do picture/recall is in first person, but it's fleeting and not really a solid picture.

This sounds like horse shit.

No, I do not remember things in third party.

Hmm. This is actually super fascinating to me because despite the fact that I wasn't raised as a girl (I'm trans), I absolutely do recall pretty much all my memories (especially the ones before my transition) in third person, and I have done so for pretty much as long as I can remember.

This fact sorta makes me wonder if there's another variable at play, considering that as a child, I didn't have to go through most of the "You are an object" conditioning that most AFAB women did.

Either way, it's very fascinating.

Interesting! I see my memories and dreams in first person, but I generally rember my clothes in memories.

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I experienced most of my early childhood in third person. Being fully in my body wasn't super common.

Holy shit.... I’ve ... Wow. My mind is BLOWN. I’ve got to read this book now!

I find that a lot of the things I remember (particular from childhood) I’ve been reminded of because there are photos/video footage. Whatever was occuring in the image I might otherwise have forgotten by now. In my case I think I recall these memories in the third person because that’s the way the image is! Memories that I simply just remember without these prompts, I recall in first person.

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