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Then her white sleeping dress. Oooh boy.

In the very first episode, we learn that a girl was raped by several men in her room when she was sleeping. Then we see Agnes having nightmares about her future husband raping her, twisting in her white dress. Now we see Becka, in her most vulnerable state, take control. She goes to the man, the pedophile, the rapist, and finds him weaker than her. Bathing, nude. Defenseless.

They have been lying to her. They have always been the weak ones.

People keep discussing the kiss as if it happened in our world, where a kiss between two girls might not carry the same weight. But this isn't our world.

In Gilead, being queer isn't merely frowned upon. It's dangerous.

That's why I find the "it was just a comfort kiss" interpretation interesting. Because even if that's true, it's still a kiss. In a society built around controlling women's bodies, relationships, and sexuality, that kind of intimacy means something.

I'm not even saying the scene proves they're destined to be together. What I'm saying is that the choice itself matters.

The writers could have given them a hug or a conversation. Instead, they chose a reciprocated kiss in the final stretch of the season finale.

Whether the moment was romantic, symbolic, or something in between, I think it's meant to have consequences. Otherwise, why choose a kiss at all?

If Agnes were a boy, fans would be going absolutely wild. Why is it that when a man kisses a woman (or vice versa), the moment is almost immediately framed as passionate or romantic?

Fans would already be rooting for them to run away together and start a new life far away from Gilead if this were a guy/girl pairing. Honestly, even if they were both boys, the fandom reaction would probably be very different.

“ Oh, it was just a comfort/pity kiss.”

I love my friends dearly, but NEVER in my life have I kissed a friend just to comfort them.

I understand the argument people are making, but if I were Becka, I would absolutely feel some type of way after that moment. Maybe for her, this truly is a closing of their 'relationship', but is risking that level of emotional and physical vulnerability really worth it if the relationship is meant to stay strictly platonic?

And honestly… if the kiss is never brought up again in season 2, was it even worth including at all instead of a conversation or a simple hug?

The fandom:

Imagine you kiss your "platonic" girlbestfriend on the mouth then watch her get married to your tall man big eye crush because you told them to and then your friend you met not even six months ago goes

She took off the robe, showing Agnes the proof of her devotion. She said "He cant hurt you anymore." searching for her approval. Then she stripped, completely bare and vulnerable before Agnes, important detail in a society so afraid of the "power" of the female body. Then Agnes bathes her, similar to a baptism. Becka says something like "I committed divine justice... and for you" as if Agnes is more important than the lord she has been told to revere. "I would do anything for you, Agnes."