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It’s in the first scene after the opening – in the Hay and Feed shop after Horace dismisses Ermengarde and tells the boys he’s going to go to NY to propose to Irene. Horace sings it as the reasoning for why “a man with such good sense would be thinking about getting married…again.”

You are absolutely right about “Why Can’t a Woman…” Because it is so over the top favorable toward men (and stereotypical of women) AND because Higgins is so NOT the type of man he describes, it is really a joke on the fantasy land that is the male ego.