Your statement has hidden nonsense premises:

1) That the era overt misogyny is behind us, it is not. The current Epstein class is lousy with 'brilliant' physicists who harassed brilliant people out of the field. This is an incalculable loss. Most American tech Billionaires are wannabe physicists because of men like Feynman, this has an enormous cultural cost we're still paying right now.

2) That 'cultural' forces prevented recognition of abuse as abuse, this is the "I'm just a smol bean" defense of a man you assert was an 'educator'. Children and women r*ped and beaten by their patriarchs see clearly that what is happening to them is wrong.

Their thought on the matter are just as 'cultural' as the 'great men' that you think get to dictate what people 'thought was ok' through the veil of time. The majority of people have always known both slavery and abuse are wrong, in every era, without exception. Even in cultures that practiced these things. The enslaved's opinion on their bondage matters more the slaver's. Even if the powerful minority thought it was 'good' for other people, they certainly know, then and now, that abuse and enslavement is wrong for themselves, which is telling enough, don't you think?

3) Being a force for good in X means that we should ignore Y behavior. This is ridiculous and you know it. If I revived Feynman at the peak of his vigour, would you leave him in a room alone with a woman you love? Your teenage daughter? He's saying he just wants to give them private tutoring on physics, surely that's fine? If not, you recognize him for what he was.