So what they are goes without saying. But failure to identify can lead to great difficulties. I believe this is happening right now with feminism. There's academic feminism and there's non-academic feminism. It's a dangerous situation because other academics think then that their Women's Studies department represents the mainstream of feminism.
Most academics seem to think the university is the centre of the universe.
But the rest of the world didn't stand still for those ten years. Not even the rest of the intelligent or even intellectual world. Those of us not affiliated with a university are not morons. And we're out here living, some of us composing, writing, thinking, and doing so unjacketed by the academic style. But that's no reason to dismiss or exclude us.