I understand both your points of view, however, there are many out there who aren't thinking as deeply and are resigned to lay the blame at her feet. I'm sure that the friends displayed the 'red flags' that Ms. Robinson ignored. However, we've all been there, trying to get people to like us, (in her case, at her own detriment). There are just so many cases where people just start laying into the victim, "she shouldn't have done this" or "she shouldn't have done that" where their actual suffering gets diminished, which burns me up.