Why can’t we say that the Gedolim were also influenced by the socities they lived in to a degree?
Well, inasmuch as I believe that the torah is the source of my morality, I get my sense of morality from what chazal say.
So, it wouldn’t really make much sense to bring my outside morality which I get from the “great moralists of modern society,” and then imply that chazal were immoral.
It is quite an accusation against chazal, and quite anti-torah.
It is also a weird accusation. Chazal were not influenced by the morality of their day in any direction. While the goyim’s notions have been swinging wildly back and forth, we have stayed the same in our notions of morality. So it is a bit weird to say that chazal’s thinking about women was influenced by the drunken goyim in their Babylonian villages any more than their thinking about anything else.