So I have this assignment to do and I need your help.

[Slippery]

It is not like I want you to do my homework but this assingment really needs your input.

So I have two markets, white middle class, middle age men who reside in Urban Areas, Suburban Areas and Rural Areas and the same thing with white middle class, middle age women (I am sure I won't find this here, but at least I can get some ideas).

The categories are fun, exciting, frightening, satisfying, desirable and dangerous.

So just let to show you that I don't mean you to make everything, I have some ideas.

For example:

White middle class, middle age men:
-fun: lawnmowing, cutting grass
-exciting: barbecue?
-frightening:
-satisfying
-desirable:
-dangerous:

White middle class, middel age women:
-fun:
-exciting:
-frightening:
-satisfying:
-desirable: somehow good neighborhood?
-dagnerous: crime, street gangs (downtown)

dang, i need some help

 

[Danny]

You haven't clearly explained what it is you need people to do.

 

[ExigeEvan]

White middle class, middle age men:
-fun: Accounts. Gun sport.
-exciting: Fast cars.
-frightening: Pregnant mistress
-satisfying: Mistress
-desirable: promotion
-dangerous: Divorce

 

[Slippery]

White middle class, middle age men:
-fun: Accounts. Gun sport.
-exciting: Fast cars.
-frightening: Pregnant mistress
-satisfying: Mistress
-desirable: promotion
-dangerous: Divorce

Great input.

To ultrabeat, I just need your opinions in what could be fun,exciting,frightening,satisfying,desirable and dangerous for men and women of the urban(downtown,city-like), suburban and rural areas.

I have some ideas for dangerous things for women from the urban areas; street gangs, shoot-outs

Dangerous things for women in the rural areas, could be divorce too.
Dangerous things for men in the rural areas, could be dangerous animals
Satisfying things for men in the rural areas, could be a good harvest? (if they plant)

Keep your great ideas coming.

 

[Jugend]

Are you looking for opposites in terms of gender stereotypes?

 

[Slippery]

Are you looking for opposites in terms of gender stereotypes?

No. Maybe that is her purpose (teacher), but to us (students) is just to find information on those categories. It is for Graphic Design, not for any sort of Sociology or Psychology class.

 

[Danoff]

Ok here we go with the stereotypes

White middle class, middle age men:
-fun: sports, drinking, gambling, parties, hunting
-exciting: fast cars, hot girls, sports, hunting
-frightening: layoffs, terrorism, oprah
-satisfying: drinking, sports, gambling, parties, hunting
-desirable: hot girls, fast cars, money, big house, big truck, big gun
-dangerous: N/A

White middle class, middel age women:
-fun: shopping, girl's night out, stupid stuff like theme parties, fondu, and pictionary
-exciting: breaking rules, oprah, sales
-frightening: any criminal having to do with children
-satisfying: gratification from the family, successful parties, jealousy from neighborhood wives
-desirable: big house, behaved family, hot husband
-dagnerous: children playing football or driving motorcycles, hackers, identity theft

 

[FoolKiller]

Ok here we go with the stereotypes

White middle class, middle age men:
--frightening: layoffs, terrorism, oprah

You forgot Lifetime.

 

[Slippery]

Ok here we go with the stereotypes

White middle class, middle age men:
-fun: sports, drinking, gambling, parties, hunting
-exciting: fast cars, hot girls, sports, hunting
-frightening: layoffs, terrorism, oprah
-satisfying: drinking, sports, gambling, parties, hunting
-desirable: hot girls, fast cars, money, big house, big truck, big gun
-dangerous: N/A

White middle class, middel age women:
-fun: shopping, girl's night out, stupid stuff like theme parties, fondu, and pictionary
-exciting: breaking rules, oprah, sales
-frightening: any criminal having to do with children
-satisfying: gratification from the family, successful parties, jealousy from neighborhood wives
-desirable: big house, behaved family, hot husband
-dagnerous: children playing football or driving motorcycles, hackers, identity theft

Great. You also gave me an idea for women's fun and men's dreaded nightmare; the notoriously known taperware parties.

 

[Slippery]

Ok. Mainly I need something for rural women. I've been looking at the census.gorv page, but so far, I have found nothing related to these characteristics.

 

[PS]

(stereotypical)
White middle class, middel age women (rural) :
-fun: reading, scrabble, setting mouse traps
-exciting: re-setting mousetraps, having dinner brought home on a snowmobile
-frightening: having dinner bringing dad home on a snowmobile, seeing dinner in your back yard, dinner isn't dead when it gets home
-satisfying: catching dinner, surviving the winter, not having your crops destroyed
-desirable: new JD6000 Turbo-Tractor, new ho, new truck
-dagnerous: the city, fast cars,

 

[stumpydino]

heres a slightly alternative stereotyping

White lower class, teenage boys:
-fun: breaking the law, beating up black people
-exciting: breaking the law, stealing stuff
-frightening: breaking the law, fast cars
-satisfying: breaking the law, getting expelled
-desirable: breaking the law, a BMW
-dangerous: breaking the law, rival chavs

 

[the_undrtaker89]

Ok. Mainly I need something for rural women. I've been looking at the census.gorv page, but so far, I have found nothing related to these characteristics.

There's like one woman on this forum.

 

[Slippery]

There's like one woman on this forum.

Yes I know. Care to a contribution?

 

[the_undrtaker89]

I kinda don't get it, just the setup of it really..

 

[Slippery]

Ok, so I have almost everything covered, except this;

Frightening things for rural men
Satisfying things for urban men
Dangerous things for rural men

Exciting things for urban women
Frightening things for rural women
Satisfying things for urban women

 

[xcsti]

Rape and murder are both frightening for all.

frightening, rural men: Bad crops, gov taking land, homosexuality, foreigners, traveling.
Satisfying urban men: Bling bling, getting down at a party, finding cheap apartment in good part of town, not having to wait in a line at some government building, avoiding traffic, getting your neighbors to STFU!!!
Dangerous rural men: Farm or factory injuries, injuries from snomobile or atv etc, wild animal attack (watch those damned squirrels)

I won't get into the female part.

 

[Slippery]

Good ideas so far, but some of you seem to be missing the most important part. The middle aged part.

Now I am only missing, something satisfying for white middle class middle aged rural men. Have no clue about it.

I found, not getting married, a frightening thing for white middle class middle aged rural women.

 

[Touring Mars]

Frightening things for rural men: Alien abduction, unemployment
Satisfying things for urban men: Pizza delivery, Playstations, Wide-Screen TVs
Dangerous things for rural men: Sexually frustrated bulls

Exciting things for urban women: new shoes, IKEA, holidays, rich men
Frightening things for rural women: isolation, growing old alone
Satisfying things for urban women: ice cream, PS2 'off' switches, good-looking boys

 

[FoolKiller]

Now I am only missing, something satisfying for white middle class middle aged rural men. Have no clue about it.

Sports star son. Or you could go generic and say succesful children. Also, paying off a mortgage/car. For fun you could say, getting the VCR clock to quit flashing 12:00, but that might be any middle age or older person.

The number of times I have had to fix electronics for my parents...