Raising Awareness is not a Game

Last Tuesday’s Globe and Mail featured Erin Anderssen’s blog posting Really, Angry Brides? Is this domestic violence “awareness”?

Anderssen highlights Angry brides, a game in which you hurl objects at potential grooms to whittle down the brides dowry. The makers of the game claim it is meant to raise awareness of violence connected to dowries.

This is a distinctive form of domestic violence as often people other than the fiancé/groom are perpetrators, and is most common in some South Asian countries. 

Angry brides poses another question; what constitutes effective awareness...