Summary and Response to "A First Amendment Junkie"

 Summary
A well known feminist writer, Susan Jacoby, wrote, "A First Amendment Junkie," which conveys her views on pornography and censorship. Jacoby talks about how feminists want to censor pornography, but they want to do it for the wrong reason. Feminist argue that pornography effects women more than other groups, but in actuality, in order, to create a good argument they should address other groups. Also, feminist wrongly accuse people like Larry Flynt for producing pornography related things when they are actually protected under the first amendment. In the end, feminists want the government to enforce censorship, but Jacoby argues that censoring should be dealt by the parents of children and not the federal government.

Response
In Susan Jacoby's, "A First Amendment Junkie," she takes an opposition to some feminist on the views of pornography. I agree on the fact that feminist should not just fight for their interest, but others as well. For feminist to say that pornography effects women worse than anybody else is a completely one sided situation because there are different types of pornography that do not pertain to women. I think there is much credibility added to Jacoby because she challenges the feminist view.

Secondly, I agree that the first amendment protects people under the conditions of pornography and so does the constitution. I enjoy how Jacoby addresses this issue by agreeing with the first amendment, but not with pornography. This shows people that she is more worried about the well-being of the constitution than the actual subject of pornography. She then says it is not the governments responsibility to censor pornography when parents should be doing that anyways which is what also agree on.