they were looking at

Non-PRO English Social Sciences Psychology

Hi, there is a verb phrase which to me can be expressed in 3 different ways according to this context (a psychology dissertation), but I might be wrong. I have put the three ways of expressing it in inverted commas separated by a backward slash.

Due to this, man has damaged himself only, and the women who have always been in man's shadow got to the point in history where they could not bear '' what they were looking at'' / '' to look at what was happening '' / '' what they saw ''.