Mainstreaming

I think the term mainstreaming is very true, and I think, and this is just observation, the Worldcon has retrenched to a more traditional venue, as someone said, in lineage with The Futurians, and such. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Willis Carto was emblematic of the-what I call the mainstreaming wing of the movement, that is, a part of the movement that believed that they could find a following among a majority of white people. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The degree of mainstreaming is based in the abilities of the individual. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There is a sense that they are trying to use these from the marketing points of view, but we're not seeing genuine long-term mainstreaming of these - of these kind of initiatives. ❋ Unknown (2007)

More importantly, seeing a clean energy start-up like Agilyx make the jump from a cleantech industry-specific award to one of the most prestigious mainstream technology awards in the business highlights the strength of their technology, and further illustrates what we see happening all around us - something we call the mainstreaming of cleantech.

One of the least-noticed consequences of the Arab Spring might be called the "mainstreaming of Hamas." ❋ Unknown (2012)

OPAL is pleased to begin mainstreaming into OPAL’s overall mission this innovative method of disseminating information. ❋ Grace Lee (2005)

As part of a national movement known as mainstreaming, they are instead being taught in regular classes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The performance stars puppets with and without disabilities -- an effort to get the younger children to accept the idea of mainstreaming early. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I know we have decided on a policy of mainstreaming, that is, including our special needs learners in ordinary schools, where they can interact and socialise with other children. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It was an experiment in what was then called mainstreaming, working developmentally disabled and other special education students into "normal" classes with their "normal" peers in the slim hope they would someday pass for "normal." ❋ Walter, Jess, 1969- (2003)

The Grapevine location of the DFW Center for Autism will become the Easter Seals North Texas Center for Autism, which will continue to serve families and children with its Texas Star Academy preschool, the only program in Texas providing a full-inclusion (that is, the inclusion of children with disabilities in educational settings with typically developing children, also known as mainstreaming) preschool program for children with autism. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Inclusion - formerly known as mainstreaming - is part of an effort to put all children with disabilities in the least restrictive environment at school. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I think San Diego Comicon represents the "mainstreaming" of fandom. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Enter the fair trade response to the "coffee crisis" - an effort to drive fair trade sales by "mainstreaming" the product in conventional stores. ❋ Unknown (2008)

While at Fangtasia, Bill told [Pam] he hadn't [been around] much, as he had been mainstreaming. (characters from [True Blood]) ❋ Kellmeister37 (2009)

How [the mainstream] operates: 1. [The mainstream] is established... 2. An alternative is established to the mainstream... 3. The mainstream targets the alternative... 4. The alternative becomes the mainstream... And therefore the alternative loses its identity, having become [absorbed] by the very system it was established to rally against. Mainstream for the masses... ❋ GoAskAlex1991 (2011)

[Avril lavigne] took the casual wearage of the tie,something "underground" and unique, and [turned it] into something everyone wears, she turned it into something "normal", a trend. [mainstream]. ❋ Emily Pormann (2003)

Today's common mainstream [trends] are [labeled] as ['emo'] (Many of these titles are misused). The older term for the jumping of trends is 'Fashionista or Fashionister' ❋ The Minorate Majority (2007)

"Reality" Tv shows would be an example. They saw how people watched Survivor, and they fed [off it]. "Swimming in the mainstream- Is such a lame, lame dream." - [Rollins]/[Black Flag] ❋ Zack (2004)

Brian was a big Green Day fan, and would wash his [corn flakes] down with [Longview] every morning. One day he turned on the radio and a song came on called American Idiot, and he quite liked it. He was humming it as he walked to school before realising that eveyone else was as well. My God, his favourite band had become popular! It was no longer his alone, it belonged to the unwashed hoards now! Falling to his knees, tearing his Basket Case t-shirt and looking up into the downpour of rain, he declaired unto the Heavens, "I HAVE NO SON!" before realising that he really did have no son and was actually pissed about his band's success. People say that if you hang around in the bushes outside of Brian's house at night, you can still hear the faint tones of [When I Come Around] over his weeping. ❋ Nedia (2005)

Mainstream should [die]. ❋ BOFH (2004)

I listen [Green Day]. I listen to epo-555. Mainstream can be good if [ignorant fucks] would stop conforming and hating everything that's on mtv. [Who gives a fuck]? ❋ Shippoking (2006)

Mainstream people [think] [Metal] is [dumb and stupid]. ❋ God Does Not Exsist (2009)

[Mainstreamers]: Wow this extremely popular and over-advertised new music [album] [rocks]! ❋ Maryanne Goff (2007)