Great answers, guys! I figured the title would be shocking :lol: but I wanted to discuss the topic because it's an interesting one.
I will say this right off the bat--I absolutely agree with 1CSIMfan that if Danny was a woman, the character would have been labeled a slut. I think if it had been Lindsay who hooked up with someone else, there would have been people calling her a slut. I wouldn't be one of them. I think double-standards suck and I don't think it's fair to label a woman something you wouldn't label a man for the same behavior.
I voted the last option (duh
), but on a serious note I would say it would either be 'sort of' or 'no.' I think Danny uses sex in an interesting way, almost as a bartering tool. He used it to "pay off" Lindsay in "Snow Day," which was in part a cute way for them to get it on, but also showed her as the sexual aggressor, as she was in the courtroom when she went in to kiss him. There was nothing sleazy or even very sexual in any of Danny's flirtatious comments to Lindsay.
And then there's Rikki, who admits to using Danny so that she doesn't feel alone. And Danny goes along with it, because he's trying to find a way to feel less guilty about Ruben's death, and if giving it up for Rikki does that, well, he's happy to do it.
I also thought it was interesting how baffled he was by Aiden's suggestion that all guys visit prostitutes in season one and how he was just like, "I have girlfriends for that." I don't think sex is something that's ever been hard for Danny to get.
That's how I interpreted that comment as well.
LOL, I always kind of took that as her flirting with him/teasing him to get a reaction out of him. I think it's interesting he just kind of ignored her and didn't take the bait at all.
I definitely don't think he did that--if anything, it was the other way around. They'd been drinking when Lindsay came on to him, and well, as for Rikki, she flat out stated she was taking advantage of his guilt.
Agreed on both counts.
I also think Danny knows what they want from him--Danny's very sexual, so it's not surprising that women respond to him that way.
I think that's the crux of it...Danny's pretty insecure and he knows he can use sex to reel people in. He's likely using it in his mind to assure that Rikki doesn't turn around and decide to blame him for Ruben's death. It's something she wants from him, and given that he thinks he got her son killed, he's probably happy to give it up for her. And for a while he wanted to spend time with Lindsay, so he gave it up for her, too. I'm kind of curious as to what he'll say when we finally get to hear his response to her declaration of love.
I will say this right off the bat--I absolutely agree with 1CSIMfan that if Danny was a woman, the character would have been labeled a slut. I think if it had been Lindsay who hooked up with someone else, there would have been people calling her a slut. I wouldn't be one of them. I think double-standards suck and I don't think it's fair to label a woman something you wouldn't label a man for the same behavior.
I voted the last option (duh
), but on a serious note I would say it would either be 'sort of' or 'no.' I think Danny uses sex in an interesting way, almost as a bartering tool. He used it to "pay off" Lindsay in "Snow Day," which was in part a cute way for them to get it on, but also showed her as the sexual aggressor, as she was in the courtroom when she went in to kiss him. There was nothing sleazy or even very sexual in any of Danny's flirtatious comments to Lindsay.And then there's Rikki, who admits to using Danny so that she doesn't feel alone. And Danny goes along with it, because he's trying to find a way to feel less guilty about Ruben's death, and if giving it up for Rikki does that, well, he's happy to do it.
I also thought it was interesting how baffled he was by Aiden's suggestion that all guys visit prostitutes in season one and how he was just like, "I have girlfriends for that." I don't think sex is something that's ever been hard for Danny to get.
That's how I interpreted that comment as well.
LOL, I always kind of took that as her flirting with him/teasing him to get a reaction out of him. I think it's interesting he just kind of ignored her and didn't take the bait at all.
I definitely don't think he did that--if anything, it was the other way around. They'd been drinking when Lindsay came on to him, and well, as for Rikki, she flat out stated she was taking advantage of his guilt.
Agreed on both counts.
I also think Danny knows what they want from him--Danny's very sexual, so it's not surprising that women respond to him that way.
I think that's the crux of it...Danny's pretty insecure and he knows he can use sex to reel people in. He's likely using it in his mind to assure that Rikki doesn't turn around and decide to blame him for Ruben's death. It's something she wants from him, and given that he thinks he got her son killed, he's probably happy to give it up for her. And for a while he wanted to spend time with Lindsay, so he gave it up for her, too. I'm kind of curious as to what he'll say when we finally get to hear his response to her declaration of love.
