Its been a long time since Ive watched these Handmaid’s Tale episodes, so if anyone has a clear idea of timeline let me know. I do know part of the show is how messy memory is, how it was a slow boil of more and more restrictive laws and then a sudden and violent takeover.
I am presuming right now that June, being a married woman, wasn’t targeted in the ‘first round’ of Gilead sortings of women- immediately after the coup. And that it was after they got the obvious women to target- the unmarried, the ‘gender traitors’, those who had recorded abortions, etc. then they started scouting for records of divorce and adultry to gain more handmaids? Like they’d have to take the time to go through Luke’s divorce record and the cause- and they probably didn’t immediately scout through men unless they were gay, ‘heretics’, or leaders of other political/religious orgs.
Or else luck that she was already at home when it happened, because women in most professions were fired earlier and she and Luke had discussed and planned the bug out bag in advance feeling like something was coming?
This would give time for Lydia to have her own traumatizing experience, convince Judd et al to form the Aunts, and have already clearly solidified a procedure and expectation for Handmaids. It didn’t feel like June’s ‘class’ among the handmaids was Lydia’s first ya know.