In the hit song “ Some Enchanted Evening ” from the Rodgers and Hammerstein 1949 musical “South Pacific,” which takes place during World War II, the French expatriate Emile sings of his love for Nellie, a young and naïve Navy nurse. The song is a general take on love and romance, of seeing a woman, a stranger, and hearing her laughter:

The song then asks:

Over the last 50 years, an army of fools – feminists and their male sidekicks, academics, many psychologists, woke cultural critics, some misogynistic fringe conservatives – has dissected, deconstructed, and dismantled romantic love. From the 1970s slogan “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle” to the attack on fairy tale princesses and knights right up to our present day when so many men and women circle one another like

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