There’s a patriarchy piñata in the lobby outside the Woolly Mammoth theater where She the People: The Resistance Continues! is staged. Take a swing at a pink “wage gap” piñata, or a T. rex wearing a sign that warns passersby to “respect existence or expect resistance.”

Within a few hours, the patriarchy will have been smashed—at the hands of a fast-talking, flawless, all-female Second City cast.

During the “she-quel” to last year’s Helen Hayes Award-winning She the People, Woolly and the Chicago-based improv troupe team up again to satirize the realities of being a woman and roast the Trump administration, guns, the state of reproductive rights—and those H&M shirts that assume women have no chest. All pressing issues, just like the oath women take to be silent about their friends’ awful boyfriends.

The resistance opens with a rousing musical number from the cast of six, fists raised as they harmonize on unfulfilled wishes: “I wish we cared less about the thigh gap and more about the pay gap,” one woman croons. “That guys revving their motorcycles knew that everyone thinks they have a small penis.” “That health care was free.” “That there were no men named Rock.”

The two hours of fast-moving sketches, directed by Carly Heffernan, are consistently funny and relevant. If this were late-night TV, many of the sketches would go viral. Alex Bellisle comes out as Mexican to her co-workers, who wonder: “Do you think it’s just a phase?”

Sayjal Joshi runs for president and is peppered with corrections from her team: “Smile! Just enough that you look non-threatening, but not like you have emotions.” “Too shrill!” “Quiet like a breeze.” “Open your body posture.” “But not too much!”

During an outing to Chippendales, the women observe that when they behave a certain way, “it’s a bachelorette party. When men do, it’s the Supreme Court.”

No one is spared—-not even the audience members occasionally pulled on stage to participate. And “if you’re offended,” the cast declares, “you’re part of the problem.”

The show is a reminder that, even when the world feels like it’s going down in flames, we can laugh. When Carisa Barreca shows up in a T. rex costume (an echo of a similar sketch from last year’s run) that some dude said was inappropriate for her age, she leans into the front row of the audience, roaring at an unsuspecting man: “Are you uncomfortable looking into the face of a strong woman?!” Then she turns around and shakes her ridiculous, massive tail in his face.

And that’s the thing about “She the People”—it’s like a totally joyous tail-shake in the face of all the men who think they know best. And it feels good.

She the People: The Resistance Continues! runs at Woolly Mammoth through Jan. 5. Tickets starting at $38. Runtime approximately 2 hours with a 15-minute intermission.