Dale un bofetón ella

In the relationships between men and women, quite always based on conflict, the meaning and the implications of a slap change completely depending on the sex of the victim. With a few exceptions, the selected examples of this essay (Cervantes' El laberinto de amor; Lope's Del mal, lo menos, El primero Benavides, La fuerza lastimosa, El duque de Viseo, Las ferias de Madrid, Los locos de Valencia, Por la puente, Juana y El perro del hortelano; Tirso's El condenado por desconfiado, Doña Beatriz de Silva, El amor médico, La celosa de sí misma; Calderón's Las manos blancas no ofenden) confirm that even a violent act such as a slap belongs to the masculine dimension, and that it may concern the feminine behavior just in the Carnival upside down dimension, considering that jealousy and the comic nonsense are the dramatic pretext for justifying a slap given by a woman hand.