Neptune’s “she’s all yours” line to Jaune was not objectifying or misogynistic.

So… I was officially motivated to write and post this today after I saw… this comic.

Basically it’s Weiss and Neptune dancing together at the Beacon Ball, and Neptune is telling her about the conversation she had with Jaune. He specifies that he told Jaune “She’s all yours”, and Weiss pushes him away in disgust and shock and tells him that she may have asked him to the dance, but that she’s not an object for him to just give away.

Yeah… I’ve seen quite a few people complain about this line, claiming that Neptune just treated her like an object by saying this line.

And now I shall explain everything wrong with this and why this line really isn’t misogynistic or objectifying. Buckle in.

Consider the context of this scene. This was before Neptune realized he was being dumb for rejecting Weiss. This was before he realized he should just go talk to Weiss.

Right after Neptune said the “She’s all yours” line, Jaune asks him if he likes Weiss. To which he responds with “Yeah, I mean, I don’t know her too well yet, but she seems pretty cool”.

Note the “I don’t know her too well YET”. Note the fact that he does not once mention how she’s pretty or rich. Clearly he’s genuinely interested in who she is as a person.

If Neptune responded to Jaune by making some comment about how she was “pretty” or “sexy”, then I guess you could say he did see her as an object. That he was passing her off at first, but then only went back to her because she “is hot and would be a good fuck”.

Or if Neptune responded by saying something like “Ehh not really, she’s kinda hot yeah, but I’m not really interested in her”. In which case, one could say he was seeing her as just some pretty girl to flirt with once and then move on to the next pretty girl.

But clearly neither of these are the case here.

If Neptune saw her as an object to pass off and not as a person to get to know, he wouldn’t have said anything about how he “doesn’t know her too well yet”. Sure, his line about how “she seems pretty cool” is a bit vague and shallow, but it’s clear he genuinely finds Weiss interesting and that he wants to get to know her better.

But then why did Neptune say the line in the first place?

Well, consider this. Neptune obviously knows Jaune likes Weiss. Neptune said the line after Jaune found out that he turned her down because he couldn’t dance, which was after Jaune pretty much berated him for turning down Weiss. Jaune said he “felt a lot better about himself”, Neptune said “please don’t tell anyone” and then the “she’s all yours” line.

By this point, it’s certainly clear to Neptune that Jaune too likes Weiss. And he’s just made it clear to Jaune that he did not turn her down because of “too many options”.

Given this context, the “She’s all yours” line most likely meant “Well, I turned down Weiss to the dance, so you might as well go and be her date”, NOT “Yeah, I don’t want anything to do with Weiss, she’s just a pretty object for me to fuck once, you can have her”. Sure, the wording of that line may come across as objectifying to some. But even though it could have been worded better, Neptune did not mean it as “I’m done with this hot piece of ass, she’s yours now Jaune”. And I see no reason to believe that he does.

And to be honest, of all the things that can be considered “objectification”, a line like “She’s all yours” is hardly anything to get worked up about.

Some may argue “But Neptune flirts with every pretty girl he meets! He was quick to flirt with team NDGO at the tournament, and right in front of Weiss too!”. What difference does that make honestly? How does his flirting with multiple girls mean that he sees women as objects?

Neptune does not make rude, catcalling, or overly sexual comments when he flirts. He knows how to take “No” for an answer when his flirting gets rejected. He does not act creepy or forceful when he flirts. He respects women’s boundaries and never tries to invade their personal space.

At the most, he just flirts at inappropriate times. But if you ask me, he’s fairly respectful when he flirts and thus his flirting is irrelevant to whether or not he sees women as objects.

One could also argue that Neptune should have instead called Jaune on his bullshit for not being able to take no as an answer. I wouldn’t have minded that, but I don’t think it’s bad that Neptune didn’t do that. Neptune is not visibly present during any of the moments Jaune flirts with Weiss. He does know that Jaune likes Weiss, but from what we’re shown, he is unaware of Jaune’s pestering of her. So you can’t really blame him for telling Jaune he could go be Weiss’s date instead of telling him to cut it out with his pursuit of her.

So to sum up. Neptune saying “she’s all yours” to Jaune did not mean that he sees Weiss as an object. It meant that since he turned Weiss down and since Jaune likes Weiss, he may as well go and be her date. And there is no reason to believe that Neptune sees Weiss- or women in general, for that matter- as nothing but pretty objects to pass on.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. Have a nice day.