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Yeah, that's what I said.
Right, that's the problem. I wish they would. Again: see Grindr. But unfortunately, I'm not gay. Very annoying.
Except that I never reduce anyone to being a fuck object. They appear in my awareness as a fuck object, with the potential for me to gain awareness of their deeper humanity later. Similarly, I do not fully appreciate the deep layers of the human experience within my cashier at McDonalds. From my point of view, they are a hamburger dispensing machine, up until the point where we form an emotional connection. And I can safely assume they are happy I see them this way, because they don't want to see the deep layers of my humanity either - they want to see me as "faceless customer 447", who they hand a bag to and then ignore as quickly as possible. If I went around fully appreciating the depth of the human soul in every person I looked at, I'd probably go crazy, and certainly would never get anything done.
Given that appreciating the true depth of the human soul is both time consuming and energy intensive, we must ask why we do it for any particular person. It must be because, for some particular person at some particular time, we have reason to put this time and energy in. And for random girl in the grocery store, the reason is: because she has a nice ass and I wanna fuck her. So we really just have the problem one step removed. I could be all "hey, those are some delicious looking apples." And she'd be like "I hope so, but why the fuck are you talking to me? We're in the grocery store, that's weird." And I'd say, "Because I've fully conceptualized the depth of your human experience and am fascinated by the minutiae of the way you're picking your apples as just one more example of the beautiful fractal complexity of the nature of reality." And she'd say "Okay, that's even weirder. Are you high on mushrooms? Why are you talking to me instead of staring at the ants in the grass outside?" And of course, my honest answer must be "because you've got a nice ass and I wanna fuck you."
I mean, "whatever I'm doing" is exactly what OP suggested in his OP. Meeting women at socially appropriate times and places (social gatherings, bars, concerts, events, etc); through my social networks and hobbies; and via online dating apps. In all of these cases, I either have an actual reason to talk to a stranger other than the fact that I want to fuck them, or else I can openly flirt with such a stranger under the assumption that this is expected and socially acceptable since the whole point of the venue is to find sexual/romantic partners. And I do this quite well. I just don't hit on women in the grocery store.