1. Alcohol is the number one date rape drug and it's problematic in part because men tend to have a much higher tolerance than women.
2. Date rape frequently involves two people from different cultures with different social expectations. This often fosters terrible misunderstandings.
3. It's always problematic to "try a case" in the court of public opinion. Probably better to try to use a piece like this as a jumping off point for general discussion of the problem space and not an attempt to determine what "really" happened in this instance.
4. It's good to think about what women can do differently to try to protect themselves. Trying to talk about that is not, per se, blaming the victim anymore than it is blaming the victim to say "It's a bad neighborhood. Make sure you lock your car."
5. When someone is a habitual offender and genuinely a predator, their victim can do all the right things and still get assaulted.
6. Whether a woman did or did not do all the right things, a man choosing to assault her is still on him, just like you are still a thief even if someone failed to lock their car.