How does Shakespeare use gender role satire to make his writing more popular in Much Ado About Nothing?

One of the major themes in Much Ado About Nothing is cuckoldry. At the time Shakespeare wrote this play, cuckold jokes were extremely popular. Benedick suggests at one point that he's afraid of entering a committed relationship with a woman because he is afraid of being cuckolded. Beatrice, perhaps unconsciously, mocks this fear with a number of horn jokes. Not only would the audience have found these jokes funny, but they would also have understood that this is one of Benedick's flaws—he is afraid of being vulnerable.
We see Benedick grow as a character when Claudio accuses Hero of infidelity and Benedick does not take his side. While the other men join Claudio, Benedick supports Beatrice and argues that Hero has not been disloyal to Claudio. For all his insistence that women are naturally inclined to cuckold their husbands and lovers, it appears he does not believe that Hero would do such a thing.