What that judge said was stupid, but there wasnt many details. Did the woman resist? Did she say no? It doesnt say in the article... by her actions though, going off into the woods with the guy to kiss and have sex, well... it doesnt sound like rape, unless there was evidence they didnt list, admittedly the article went light on any court evidence at all. Was it simply a case of buyers remorse? Or did he hold her down and rape her for real? Any follow up articles?
IMO if a woman goes out, gets hammered, and sleeps with some dude she doesn't know, she shouldn't be allowed to blow the rape whistle when she sobers up and her conscience comes back, as DD said, this happens often enough that some people stop and think "wait a minute" when a woman claims to have been raped after going out partying.
If she says NO clearly, and he doesn't stop, its rape, he should get his ass put in a sling, but if she goes out gets drunk, sleeps with the guy, wakes up the next day and realizes she made a mistake and wants to repair her ego or image by destroying his? Well, then I think she should get her ass put into a sling. Because quite frankly, that shit happens a LOT more then people are willing to admit which I think is why so many people are leery about rape in general.
I remember hearing about so many cases in the 90s when all these males were getting arrested and expelled from college because they hooked up with some drunk girl while partying, and they claimed rape, even though the "drunk sex" was consensual... the rule of thumb at the time was that if she is drunk, she cannot consent legally. How that suddenly became the males fault and made him the aggressor is beyond me, since the majority of the time he was drunk too, except if a male accused a female of raping him and his consent wasn't any good because he was drunk he would rightfully be laughed at.
In those cases, the guys who did the "raping" were often targeted by malicious females who could use that as a reason to get back at them when they pissed them off, or to hide the fact that they were out drinking and banging frat boys or cheating on their boyfriends. Those are the idiots you need to be blaming for people rolling their eyes when someone says they were raped after a night of heavy drinking.
When a woman is grabbed and pulled into a dark room and raped against her will, no one thinks to blame her, thats an OBVIOUS situation.