Its really about context. Most things are, so you can lose a lot in translation when people only decide to quote a line. I mean a lot of people will dislike any strangers telling them to do anything, and most people also are incredibly bad at putting themselves into the positions of other people in any accurate way.
So a person really shouldn't confuse this matter and think its necessarily about the "hello" or even themselves, just that it should be understood that there are many people out there who act in very different ways and some of those ways can be extremely obnoxious, rude and threatening and so on and the "hello" is just the verbal aspect of what can be an otherwise much worse situation. Not always mind you, misunderstanding and miscommunication is a two way street. Or to put it another way given home extremely homophobic a lot of people are, if they were in prison and another larger, stronger, bigger person "innocently" asked them to "pick up the soap" then a lot of individuals would suddenly have strong feelings of uncomfortableness, anxiety and fear. For many individuals and arguably because of pop culture references, such a phrase means much more than what it is. For many different individuals many otherwise normal words can be as well depending on their own personal experiences.
So if one doesn't approach every single woman (or person generally) trying to earn their way into their pants as some right they have when they act nice to them and with a really obnoxious, sleazy, cliche, sexually aggressive, lacking awareness attitude, then no one really has to worry about an innocent gesture or line, but a lot of people can be obnoxious, ignorant, sleazy, cliche, sexually aggressive, lacking awareness etc and statistically, generally means its males acting this way on to females. There will be other factors as well, but thats one significant imbalance as far as gender. This imbalanced gender ratio also carries over to sexual assault and rape statistics too (unless we include prison where male on male rape significantly increases male victimhood) or to put it another way how do people feel knowing that there is a large chance that the majority of their daughters, sisters, wives, girlfriends, interactions with unknown male individuals every day will include aggressive sexual advances and pressure. I mean "hello" might be a good day, or not, again it depends on the context. Context is what also gives other words their own power as well, and why the F word, C word, N word can be offensive for many.
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