He minds a little bit; he'd certainly rather hang out with her in a safe corner instead of a potentially deadly death forest. The secret sauce to being as openly prone to whining about his opinions as Popp is that if he decides he's going to be mature and considerate of the feedback loop you get when people are having feelings about the way you are feeling, it is pretty easy for him to get away with it.

"Ehhh, I'm the last person who can look down on anyone else for running away, and I don't have anyone to specifically impress either."

He does give her a sideways eyeball for a moment, is she still making assumptions about him? She might be! Is he going to let her have this one? ...He might!

"If anything, it's worse for you, because you're a woman."

It's not a competition, Popp - wrong, everything is a competition, he has self-esteem issues.