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I never understood Mabel haters. They all bitch about Mabel being selfish and making Dipper sacrifice his needs for her, her character development being shit, etc. while they're ignoring the following:
1. most characters in this show are assholes, including Dipper. For example, in the fair episode Mabel is somehow the bad guy for "manipulating" Dipper into undoing his time travel shenanigans (via becoming a depressed wreck after losing her pet), but Dipper gets a pass for stealing the time travel device because he wanted to impress a girl, even though this resulted in an innocent guy getting arrested and sent to murderjail. Nobody cares either that the entire fair is a deathtrap because Grunkle Stan is a cheap bastard who doesn't give a shit about safety.
2. most of the things Dipper "sacrificed" for Mabel he wouldn't be able to get anyway. Like, it's pretty unlikely that Wendy would date him, or that his parents would allow him to stay with Ford, because he's a child and also a goddamn midget.
3. Mabel is a kid who acts like a kid. Dipper's thing is that he tries to grow up too fast, and Mabel's that she doesn't want to grow up yet, so of course she's more immature of the two.
4. Mabel is Dipper's sidekick, not the main protagonist, and as such she's there primarily to be a foil to Dipper and be cute and entertaining (which she is), not to learn lessons