Men created civilizations. Those civilizations evolved to the point where we started to see and treat everyone as deserving to be treated equally, but not truly understanding, and in fact ignoring, the unequal nature of human beings.
So, men started giving women rights and freedoms they didn't deserve or earn, bowing to their every demand as to garner favor or not to rock the boat and then feeding into the narrative that women are something greater than himself, thus giving all their power away and turning society into a degenerate mess. Muh principles spell muh downfall.
Women don't care about individual freedom. They are nothing but an extension of a man's self-image. They represent the psychological hope a man has for his own self-completion. They are not egalitarian equals, nor complimentarian partners.
Like morality, the concept of "deserving" is always subjective, but that doesn't mean, for example, that I can't say X didn't deserve to get cancer or to be cheated on by his wife.
When I wrote that "honor killings where once an almost universal phenomenon", I wasn't referring specifically to filicidal honor killings. Honor killings did, in fact, occur among the Germanic tribes of Western Europe.
"The Germanic tribes of Western Europe, as well as the Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian cultures legally sanctioned the killing of unfaithful wives by their husbands to protect family honor. [63] Even in the United States, until recent times, wife killings by husbands were not considered a crime in some jurisdictions. [64] Most strikingly, in India and other countries with large Hindu populations new wives often are murdered by their husbands because of failed dowry demands. [65]" (source)