How to End Injustice Everywhere

De: Melanie Joy

Narrado por: Anna Crowe

In this eye-opening and compelling work, psychologist Melanie Joy reveals the common denominator driving all forms of injustice. The mentality that drives us to oppress and abuse humans is the same mentality that drives us to oppress and abuse nonhumans and the environment, as well as those in our own groups working for justice.

How to End Injustice Everywhere offers a fascinating examination of the psychology and structure of unjust systems and behaviors. It also offers practical tools to help raise awareness of these systems and dynamics, reduce infighting, and build more resilient and impactful justice movements.

©2023 Melanie Joy, PhD (P)2023 Lantern Publishing & Media

Great (on first read)

This is analytical and concerned with relational power dynamics, the development and connections among feelings and the context development of individual identities. Remarkably structural.
Ignore other review stating author claims women can't abuse men. She literally explicitly states the opposite. What she does say is that women cannot oppress men, the distinction between oppression and abuse also being well defined. This claim may be problematized insomuch as the distinction between child and man is blurry, but otherwise her treatment here is thorough, fair, and rhetorically valuable.
This is not a book about men, but I felt compelled to address this one point falsely made regarding the content in prior reviews.

Wanted more

I respect Melanie Joy and may now have read/listened to all her books. As a vegan activist dealing with narcissistic abuse, she speaks to my experiences more than anyone else, tying in the connections of oppression.

I will listen to the book again to make sure I captured most concepts. It seemed to end unexpectedly, as I was assuming she would delve deeper on a complicated, diverse topic, helping to tie in the concepts of othering, hierarchy, power dynamics, oppression, as she did in Powerarchy. I expected added details to create more understanding of the interwoven ideas.

Women can't abuse men?

I've read all of Dr. Joy's other work, and particular enjoy her discussions on veganism and animal rights, but I just can't wrap my head around her version of feminism. She has stated in previous works, and states again here, that women simply cannot be abusive towards men because overall, men are in a more powerful position. I can understand this if she explicitly stated that this is an overall view and that individually women can certainly abuse men, but she continues to NOT say that.