Being stupid =/= it's her fault that she got raped.
Yes, she could have prevented it with better decision-making, although as I recall, date rape was NOT on the radar screen 20+ years ago the way it is today. I never saw any warnings back then, no mention of it in otherwise-comprehensive high school sex ed, nothing. But the upshot is that there's no statute saying that the proper penalty for clueless alcohol use is being raped.
The stories about women making the decision to have sex, regretting it the next day, and falsely accusing a man of rape are completely off-topic. The law is totally clear in every state of the union. If she was passed out and he had sex with her, that's rape. The article is perfectly clear, too; it says that she was passed out and "lost her virginity" in this incident. It's pretty stunning to connect a foolish victim, who only endangered herself, with the kind of selfish liar who'd ruin a man's life with a false accusation.
Yes, I made much better decisions than this in college. Yes, if I have a daughter, best believe she'll be educated about these risks. No, I don't want to spend my party time looking after stupid drunk people. But the author has paid for her mistakes a thousand times over. Nobody EVER deserves to be raped. Rape has a perpetrator, and there's no sharing of the blame for the crime. The blame's on the rapist.
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