ABSTRACT
Las bofetadas seems to imply that the enterprise of correcting lindos is doomed to fail because they have already penetrated all levels of the social fabric. In fact, cross-dressing of lindos and weak husbands in the entremeses, while it may sometimes be accompanied by a revelation of same-sex desired, generally serves rather to point at a form of masculinity or gender performance that does not fit into a traditional gender binary. In this sense, the cross-dresser of the entremeses is better described as what Marjorie Garber, following Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, calls “the third sex”. The sexual capability of a man was so relevant that lacking it implied diminished rights. An impotent man was not seen as a full man and therefore did not have the right to enter into matrimony. Poetic sodomites are represented as wretched creatures, corrupt, threatening, and stuck in excrement and sin.
