In the light of this criticism, the feminist academic power lies in its ability to always retreat to the margins for its information and critical gaze. It is the people on the margins of conceptual orders and stereotypes who feel the pressures to conform. Really its about identifying the political and power laden nature of norms and how they affect 'justice' but also how they produce inequality. Equality is troublesome because differences are hard to equate and the feminists try to expose many differing positions and direct attention to how those positions are influenced in society. I think this is why many people feel feminism to be a threat, because it attempts to decenter the convenience of normative and universalising theories as being fundamentally problematic.
Feminist discourse sees an importance in involvement and practice.
Dialogue between academics, professionals and the world at large becomes a necessity in any search for justice. The need to recognise difference comes with the necessity to never make one's own position absolute, to always be open to constructive criticisms. This might be seen to make the academic affair a lot more fluid and dynamic, incorporating a recognition of the inevitability of change and also that there is a danger in attempting to speak on behalf of someone else. Women who are victims of crime are continually exposed to the failure of the system to protect and litigate their interests effectively. Women who are perpetrators themselves of crime are subject to a dubious justice by double standards.