Gender inequality remains an issue in the U.S., but this is ridiculous.
TMZ Sports on Wednesday chastised the University of Connecticut student body for failing to react over the UConn women's national basketball championship in the same manner as it did over the men's national championship.
By rioting.
TMZ Sports reported, "In what can only be described as a total lack of gender equality, the students at UConn failed to riot after the women's basketball team won the NCAA title last night ... with ZERO student arrests."
Several media outlets, including Sports World News, reported of the rioting after the UConn men's basketball team defeated Kentucky on Monday night to win its championship. According to TMZ Sports, more than 15,000 people gathered in Storrs, Conn., to celebrate that victory, and 35 arrests were made in the riots that followed.
TMZ Sports confirmed that 20 of those people arrested were students.
Flash forward to Tuesday night and the unbeaten UConn women's championship over Notre Dame. TMZ Sports reported law enforcement saying that an estimated 3,500 people took to the streets, only two arrests were made and neither of those were students.
So that makes UConn's student body sexist.
Never mind the facts that the UConn women won back-to-back championships and were the heavy favorites to win before the tournament begin, while the men's team became the first No. 7 seed in tournament history to win the NCAA tournament and was even an underdog to the eighth-seeded Wildcats on Monday.
Not to mention the fact that no women's sporting event has ever come close to producing the raw emotion accompanied with winning and losing a championship event such as the Super Bowl, the World Cup or even a boxing match.
A UConn representative told TMZ Sports, "All in all, people had a good time (Tuesday night), but they did so responsibly and respectfully. A great night in a great week for the Huskies."
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