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8-year sportswriting vet Ryan Schultz turns out to have been teen girl ID revealed after women accuse him of harassment
By Michelle Robertson, SFGATE Updated 2:43 pm, Friday, November 10, 2017

Sportswriter Ryan Schultz had been blogging about baseball on major sports sites for eight years when some women came forward alleging he harassed them online. Then it was revealed that Schultz, who claimed to have a wife and two children, was not a man at all, but rather a young Missouri woman who had written under the false identity since she was 13.

A Deadpsin report revealed the identity of Ryan Schultz to be 21-year-old Becca Schultz, who took on the identity to freely write for sites like SB Nation and Baseball Prospectus. As the years went by, Becca couldn't figure out how to disentangle herself from the fabricated persona.

The young woman's story started to fall apart over the weekend, Deadspin reports, when the Twitter account @rschultzy20, which supposedly belonged to Ryan Schultz, tweeted a misogynistic joke that ruffled some online feathers. According to Uproxx, the account was deleted, reactivated and deleted again.

Then the stories started pouring in. Some women on Twitter claimed Schultz had harassed them. Two revealed they had sent the writer nude photos. Deadspin contacted the women, who said they had formed "serial relationships" with Ryan Schultz and used Twitter to chat about baseball and hockey.

The Deadspin report goes on to reveal that some of the women claimed Ryan would "get drunk and berate them" or would "imply that he'd hurt himself" if the women cut off the correspondence.

Becca Schultz told the media site that she "wanted to be a sportswriter" and figured the only way to get noticed was to act like a "stereotypical guy." (and get drunk and harass women)

"I was young and had no idea what to do," she said, "so I just acted like I thought a man would."

I want to sue this young lady for libelous statements toward my gender.

Aw c'mon. You like it. You know you'd come right back for more.

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rubato

Too bad for you, truth is a defense.

"Two revealed they had sent the writer nude photos."

You met someone on a site like Twitter — someone you've never seen in real life — and you're sending nude selfies to them??
And just WTF is a 'serial relationship' ?   Sounds like something a hooker would have with her johns.
Looks to me like more than enough stupidity and bad decisions, on everybody's part, to go around.

-"BB"-

For just a moment I thought this was a story about false claims of sexual harassment.

The truth was far more horrible.

BoSoxGal wrote:The truth was far more horrible.

Horrible: That's spelled W-E-I-R-D

There was a woman in my shop aboard ship when I was in the Navy that groped, teased, and propositioned one of the guys in my shop in a most inappropriate manner. And not alone- she did it in front of me on a couple occasions. It was almost cartoonish. They never actually DID anything but she sure made the suggestion in a fairly aggressive manner.

Fast forward 15 years, she emailed me out of the blue and told me she'd been hiding the fact that she was a lesbian the whole time. The whole act was to throw us off the trail that she was in a relationship with a woman in the ship. They were living together (which I knew- it wasn't unusual for groups of sailors to rent an apartment off base) and this was during the early years of DADT.

She knew neither of us would report it. Unless some guy had another issue, I'm not sure very many guys WOULD report that kind of behavior. In fact, to make it worse I kind of felt like I'd wished she'd had done that to me, because frankly I'd never been hit on EVER, though knowing it was all for show pretty much dampened it.

Therein lies the big problem between how women and men are wired. Or is it really? In the article above, it states that 2 of the women who accuse the sportswriter of sexual harassment sent "him" nude photos. Now, most women I know really don't like it when guys send them dick picks. I know one woman who has told me that guys do it all the time. I never have, as I know no one wants to see that. Some guys, it's just "showing their plumage". I guess some guys all think they're Adonis when in reality they more resemble Jabba the Hutt. And I would suspect, though maybe I'm wrong, that most single, unattached heterosexual males wouldn't mind a woman sending naked selfies, unsolicited or otherwise. Sure, you don't want to get them at WORK (if only because it could cause you to lose your job) and guys in a relationship probably don't want them coming in on a shared email address, but as far as I can tell guys like that sort of thing. Again, maybe it's just me and I'm in the minority. Yes, I know that behavior is out of line at work, and I don't engage in that sort of behavior.