Sentence:  One is so accustomed to think of men as the privileged who need but ask and receive , and women as submissive and yielding , that our sympathies are usually enlisted on the side of the <WSD>man</WSD> whose love is not returned , and we condemn the woman as a coquette . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)