What is an example of satire in Aaristophanes' Lysistrata?

The introductory passage of
Lysistrata contains the first element of satire in Aristophanes'
play. Lysistrata and Calonice are wittily discussing the absence of the neighboring
groups of women who were summoned by Lysistrata to a council. The women are tardy in
coming, in fact, Lysistrata seems to wonder if they will come at all: "But now there's
not a woman to be seen." As the two women discuss the general nature of Lysistrata's
urgent business, Lysistrata begins the satirical passage that wittily protests the vain
and frivolous nature of women's mentality (making ancient women sound a lot like
contemporary women in the process!). Lysistrata answers Calonice's question about why
the other women haven't arrived by saying:

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No man's connected with it;
If that was
the case, they'd soon come fluttering
along.

Lysistrata tells
Calonice that her object is no less than rescuing Greece, "Greece saved by Woman!" to
which Calonice replies that woman is a "Wretched thing, I'm sorry for it." Calonice then
asks how the women can do such a thing. It is here that Aristophanes details a satirical
criticism of the mentality of women of his day. Calonice
says:

How
could we do
Such a big wise deed? We women who dwell
Quietly
adorning ourselves in a back-room
With gowns of lucid gold and gawdy
toilets
Of stately silk and dainty little
slippers....

The satire
deepens as Lysistrata persuades Calonice that

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These are the very armaments of the
rescue.
These crocus-gowns, this outlay of the best myrrh,
Slippers,
cosmetics dusting beauty, and robes
With rippling creases of
light.

To each of
Lysistrata's persuasive assertions, Calonice responds by satirically (and ironically)
exclaiming that she will take up each of the items they have just
disparaged:

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LYSISTRATA

No man will lift a
lance against another--

CALONICE

I'll run to have my
tunic dyed crocus.

LYSISTRATA

Or take a
shield--

CALONICE

I'll get a stately
gown.

LYSISTRATA

Or unscabbard a
sword--

CALONICE

Let me buy a pair of
slipper.

The point being made
by Aristophanes through this opening satire is criticism of the way women lived in
Aristophanes' time and of what they accomplished in or participated in in terms of
aspects of the larger life of society. Of course, this satirical opening gambit is part
of the larger point Aristophanes is making regarding the latent, potential, and realized
powers of women.