"Ford has a not particularly disguised mistrust of sibling bonds, and his offers to make Dipper his apprentice are as much about splitting the twins apart as anything else."

"That generalization was embedded in your language"

"He's briefly made to feel embarrassed around five girls his age."

Yes, but the show also makes a point to punish Dipper for his actions, thus painting them as inherently wrong. That is what I have a problem with. You claim that the moral here was that you shouldn't treat women as prizes. That isn't what Dipper was doing. He was simply using these brief relationships as practice.…

Yeah, I kind of had an issue with it as well. Especially within the context that the show presented it. Dipper essentially has two choices here, continue to be the goober that the girl at the first attraction craps all over but somehow retain the moral high ground, or throw on some Bravado, chat some girls up, feel…