I find myself agreeing very much with how Aromanticism in relation to Callie is a bit odd (although it strikes me as blundering going for 'Callie, notably a bit strange, the last of their kind, and Roxy's Girlfriend' where the joke is 'girlfriend'), but I certainly don't see that permeating through the comic as an intentional-or-otherwise issue. The Dancestors are obviously going to age poorly, that's sort of the point, but the exploration of Troll/Human culture is very clearly in the sense of something closer to a nature documentary, or the fact that it's talking in broad terms about alien romance-- In the same way a general, satirized as 'dumbed down' version of this for humans is "when two people love each other very much..." As for Jake, the Nobles' session is riffing on teenage relationship drama for the whole of it. Jake shutting down around romance entirely is sympathetic to my experience, yeah, but it's also Jake Page Of Hope being a dork-- Fork found in kitchen.

This isn't to say I support it uncritically, I just don't think this discussion is revolutionary or something that needs apologizing for. Homestuck also throws around slurs like popcorn for a while. It's also misogynistic in some of the places it's not powerfully queer.

Anyway, maybe it'll come up in the course of Beyond Canon. Lord knows there's plenty of room and attention to the messy horseshit relationships.