Oh I wasn’t worried about my own safety re: safety pin backlash. Just that some think it’s stupid, a meaningless slacktivist gesture. I’ll probably keep wearing it just in case it does matter to anybody—and I didn’t wind up leaving the house today at all.

I don’t know what to say to my family. My brother and I got drunk over the summer and I yelled at him about his ridiculous political views. He was nice about it and I felt like a jerk, but oh my gosh he’s wrong about so much and didn’t even want to base his opinions on facts. He invited my parents for Thanksgiving,…