When I was 15 and working my first steady job with a landscaping crew of marginal citizens I participated in those "har-har lookit that" group discussions as a means of protective colouration. The absurdity of the conversation was and is part of it's pleasure, in my opinion. Some citizen will not randomly walk over to a sweaty labourer and fuck him right where he stands. We were either toothless and tatooed, grimy, smelly, or in my case a 15 year old skinny kid.
It was like learning a whole new language, communicating in this jail-bird/seasonal worker/un-educated mileau I found myself. Some of those habits of speech have stuck with me because I remained a blue-collar worker the last 30 years.
I have spent many an hour in mixed company doing boring repetitive work and sharing conversation with men and women both about idle things like enjoying the weather, good food, the latest songs on the radio . . . and who was hot and why. The conversation has it's place. As was stated earlier, not all interactions involve Taliban or glass ceilings. Some are just idle chit-chat to pass the interminable shift hours until it is time to punch the clock and go home.
In my original post I mentioned how I like the phrase "I would" because of it's simplicity and lack of baggage.
BTW I hung on to that Clinton pic because I am pretty sure the "I'd hit it" meant he too would have smashed the Taliban in Afghanistan - the timing of that photo taken in 2001 with the other former presidents seems to back me up on that. Britney was pure fun - "hit me 2 times" is a phrase of hers I think.
If you can keep the conversation easy and flowing there is nothing wrong or objectifying to an occassional "I would", no matter how you word it. If someone at some time is able to give the phrase enough baggage that it becomes akin to the "n" word then a self-censoring will take place and there will be some other easy conversational way for either and both sexes to mention that person "A" is attractive and probably nice to get close and personal with. To me it is on the same level as mentioning how a swimming pool would be nice to jump into on a hot day, when the odds of being able to jump into that particular pool at that particular time are zero.
Hi to you too, The_Jazz
