 However, in the case of female "albureras" (female albur performers), the situation becomes quite complicated for the male albur performer, as the general counterattack strategy would be exhibiting the adversary as a sexual bottom, but women in albur are not trying to prove "virility" only mental sharpness, and that type of attack does no harm.In this case, if the albureado has no comeback line, he suffers a double humiliation since he would not be able to respond to the albur, and he would also have been defeated by a woman, which makes it more humiliating for the "macho" Mexican mind among of a group of males.Albures can make use of several aspects of (empirical, innate) linguistic knowledge.