You are suborning your current values to an historical assessment. Did medieval peasants have "freedom"? Did they care? Men had short, brutal lives historical

You are suborning your current values to an historical assessment. Did medieval peasants have "freedom"? Did they care? Men had short, brutal lives historically. Women were highly valuable. I think part of the problem of modernity is that men have to adjust to not having short, brutal lives. Lots get left behind. Humans still have the cognitive machinery to assign more value to women than men. Fundamental differences in reproductive output (i.e. men are "disposable" in a reproductive sense) make this immutable, even outside of millions of years of psychological evolution.