Nearly all these women do not want to pay taxes. However, the conflict comes in debating the method of resolution: whether this problem can only be solved by pleading with the wives and daughters of the new rulers of Rome to influence their loved ones, whether women should instead vote to unify together as a group and publicly advocate for policy changes, or whether they should simply resort to violence and assassination of those who oppose them. It is thus a game of how, rather than why, change can be pursued. It also addresses a larger question of what rights women do and don’t have, echoing the original source text of Hortensia’s actual speech: If women cannot vote or serve in public office, why should they have the responsibilities of citizenship but not the rights? How or whether should one resist an increasingly autocratic regime? How much do you risk one’s personal safety for the greater good?