"When I came here people knew about Srebrenica, people were well educated and sympathetic.
For example, when daughters are pulled out of school, it's probably at least as often the mother who is responsible; my impression is that fathers, partly because they are more likely to have been educated themselves, are often more sympathetic to educating their daughters.
But I believe that female therapists who are educated in men's issues and sympathetic to the concerns of men can also be helpful to male clients.
The most common reading was proposed, among others, by Francis Fukuyama: the protest movement that toppled Mubarak was predominantly the revolt of the educated middle class, with the poor workers and farmers reduced to the role of (sympathetic) observers.
Women were more likely than men, older people more likely than younger people, rural dwellers more than urbanites, and uneducated people more likely than educated people to hold these regressive views, with rural, older and uneducated women the least sympathetic, and urban men, men aged 25-34, and educated women the most progressive.
As an Oxford-and-Cambridge educated theologian, the 58-year-old archbishop gained a reputation as a deep-thinking liberal, strongly sympathetic to gay rights, and underscored that as archbishop of Wales by appointing openly gay men to the clergy.
The most educated person in the ghetto, he adds, left school at 15.The Bulgarian government, in distant Sofia, claims to be sympathetic.
"I was sympathetic to volunteerism at a time when the conventional feminist response was fairly derogatory," Ms. Kaminer said, pointing out that for many educated women, volunteerism was the only "work" in which they could exercise their considerable talents.
"My professional colleagues are all sympathetic and understand... beyond that in the world, there's no understanding or sympathy, just a feeling that you're so well educated, you must be doing something wrong".
