Agreed. Men use their sexuality as power. In this world, I bet men casually get out of bathtubs fully naked all the time if interrupted, especially if the interrupter is female, to show their confidence and perhaps disarm others. Daenerys is just playing the same card and showing she's no weaker than any man.

Interesting how both Sims and Sepinwall read the Melisandre-Beric scene as her being being astonished that it was possible to bring people back from the dead. The way I read it was that she was astonished that Beric was revived so many times, especially given the fact that her first question, with no prompting, is,…

"Ugly old thing."

I felt like their disagreement about skinning methods was also a subtle nod at their respective backgrounds as well, with Meera neatly skinning her rabbit in a way that kept the entire pelt intact in one piece and Osha basically tearing her rabbit's pelt apart.

The way I read it was that he's naturally cautious, especially after the previous kidnapping, which is why he wasn't willing to let her in in the first place. Rather than making him suspicious, the call seemed to verify Grannie's story, so he let his guard down enough to let her in, but kept the gun on him just to be…