“May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor” is cathartic for me.  The prevalence of Rape Culture is overwhelming, and exponentially radiates through ignorance perpetuated by our society’s acceptance of everyday sexism as a way of life and exploiting gender stereotypes.  I learned in Psychology that our fears are usually ill-placed (you are more likely to die from a car accident than any sort of airplane related death, yet most people don’t clap once they’ve parked the car safely), and realized sharks are endangered, but a large percent of the population refuses to dip their toes in salt water in case of a shark attack.  In class, we studied how understatement, irony, and diction can compliment each other to create a stronger tone than “not good.”  The statistics of sexual assault are almost unbelievable, so comparing those to the statistics of shark attacks was ironic itself.  The parallel structure of our fears supported by how we view them defines the critical and solemn tone.  I used the title, “May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor” as an allusion to The Hunger Games, which is a series about a dystopian society that crumbles apart as a female hero saves the country.  This also symbolically speaks to the ensuing realization of the backwards priorities of our current society.