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 <WSD>sympathies</WSD> are usually enlisted on the side of the man whose love is not returned , and we condemn the woman as a coquette . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion