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Calling all Facebookers. There's a new variation on the hugely popular game Angry Birds. In Angry Brides, you get to heave a red stiletto, say, at the head of the prospective groom. Points for every shot to the head and groin lower the dowry expected from his bride-to-be.
The game is the brainchild of dating site, Shaadi, which hopes to “raise awareness” about dowry-related violence in India (and abroad). Apparently every four hours there's a dowry-related death, in which a groom's family abuse that of his fiancee.
How effective, though, is a game that aims to fight violence by depicting, uh, more violence. Seems Angry Brides is just the latest in a slew of advertising ploys to tackle what the Globe and Mail dubs "battered-woman chic."
Case in point: the provocative photo shoot of Glee's black-eyed Heather Morris, and the Edmonton salon's black-eyed model telling women to "Look Good in All that you do."
Is Angry Brides making a valuable social statement or simply glamourizing domestic violence?