Experiencing with multiple perspectives

A given experience can be experienced in multiple different ways by the same person using different perspectives they know of.

This type of experiencing from multiple perspectives is more likely to happen to marginalized folks, since they are more familiar with managing perspectives other than their own natural one (as referenced by Lili Loofbourow below)

Examples

I can experience Disney Parks as someone thinking about the creation and experience of the parks, or simply as a visitor that takes the environment more at face value. Both perspectives can be enjoyable in different ways.

Watching liberal talk shows or commentators is an experience where I can listen from at least three different perspectives. I can listen as myself with no extra considerations and acknowledge where I agree or disagree with the content. I can listen as if I am one of my own friends and consider how someone with similar but not exactly the same views as my own would hear it, and consider whether they find the content more or less convincing. I can listen as if I am a conservative or someone with very different views and culture from my own, and wonder if this content appeals to them in any way.

Sometimes, I feel as if I can only think in a certain perspective or two and can’t access others, and it may make certain content more enjoyable at some times but not at others.

References

“It also demonstrates the other feature of readerly experience I am trying to describe: the ongoing and exhausting project of having to experience narrative through two sets of eyes. Or three. The further you move away from white cis masculinity, the more points of view you have to juggle. Have you ever played that icebreaker game where you’re in a room and the first person has to say their name, then the next person has to say the first person’s name and then their own? The last person in the circle has to name every single person in the room before they get to say their own name. That is the marginalised viewer’s cognitive burden in a nutshell.

You can jump ship, of course: forget the “we” altogether, relax, and enjoy your own perceptions. But if you do that, you’ll never be taken seriously as a thinker, scholar, creator, or critic. For many people, that has been a small price to pay." (Lili Loofbourow, The Male Glance: How We Fail to Take Women’s Stories Seriously)