The "1600s" from the meme covers a lot of ground. By the early 1600s the RCC was already getting bored of the women burning machine they’d spent centuries building and polishing almost ex nihilo before the new world had even really properly considered burning women as a hobby.
Roman Popery and the scholastics were deeply complicit in laying the theological and legal foundations methinks. Thomas Aquinas was one of the first to push that maleficium demands punishment by the state. Pope John XXII canonized Aquinas' nonsense in 1323 and cranked it up with bulls that helped embed hardcore misogynistic heresiology via fire into the brainstem of the western latin tradition. Saint Petronilla de Meath was burned in 1324 as this clusterfuck was revving up.
When the Malleus Maleficarum dropped in the late 1400's long before the Protestant schism, things went feral and infected all that stems from it. It's much, much worse and far more distressing to read than even Shad M Brookes Shadow of the Conqueror. By ~1620 even the Roman Inquisition was issuing instructions to put the brakes on as the Church pivoted to focus on stuff more manageable like drugging and castrating children to make mass sound nice for the next 400yrs as there would be no more St Hildegarde's causing trouble with nasty letters anymore...but just as the Vatican was moving to preying on children in the longterm instead of women the meme went viral in the US worse than Graham Hancock on Joe Rogan.
The ancient christolgies still going didn't really pay any attention afaiu: Coptic, Tewahedo, Orthodox, the churches of the east, even Islam seems to have pretty much just ignored this stuff.
If only Peter Abelard and Heloise had been the first protestants.......