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Teen Girl Posed For 8 Years As Married Man To Write About Baseball And Harass Women

By Lindsey Adler · Deadspin · 2017
Teen Girl Posed For 8 Years As Married Man To Write About Baseball And Harass Women
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"This Deadspin tale is nothing short of bonkers. (The site is owning the sports-catfishing beat.) Adler reports that at age 13, Becca Schultz assumed the false online identity of Ryan Schultz, a married father of two — and an aspiring White Sox blogger — who was studying to become a pharmacist. While masquerading as Ryan, Schultz trolled women online, inflicting real pain on some, and was cradled by the “exploitative ecosystem of online sportswriting, which created the conditions for her to get her enviable opportunities without much interrogation from editors…” Adler’s tale illustrates the…"

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