 "Twitter outraged at AP for calling Amal Clooney 'actor's wife'")
What comes to your mind when you hear about Amal Clooney? Is it her career as a prominent lawyer or her high-profile marriage? [caption id=“attachment_2414824” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  File photo of Amal Clooney in court. Reuters[/caption] Thanks to her surname, many may automatically associate her with Hollywood star George Clooney. However, Clooney, née Alamuddin, is a renowned Humar Rights lawyer,activist, and author and a global celebrity in her own right. In fact she was was known for her high-profile clients such as Julian Assange, Maldives ex-President Mohamed Nasheed, and former Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko even before she was married. So when The Associated Press (AP) tweeted the below story about Clooney, referring to her as ‘actor’s wife’ was not only unnecessary, but also offensive.
Amal Clooney, actor's wife, representing Al-Jazeera journalist accused in Egypt of ties to extremists http://t.co/i6nQg0xPg3
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 29, 2015
While the story, about Clooney defending three Al Jazeera journalists sentenced by Egypt to three years in prison, did not mention her husband, the tweet her look like more of a Hollywood personality than an internationally successful lawyer that she is. As expected, the gaffe sparked outrage on Twitter with many users calling AP out on the sexist nature of the tweet.
!!! Fixed it for you @AP. Let me know if you need an introduction to the 21st century. https://t.co/Zj5K0ocvto pic.twitter.com/tgI27xGWhg
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) August 29, 2015
@AP it's a good job that when she's not being George Clooney's wife she's not like A HIGH PROFILE HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER or anything.
— Tim Stillman ⭐️⭐️ (@Stillmanator) August 29, 2015
Impact Shorts
More Shorts*Amal bursts into room*
— Hari S Ayengar (@hari_ayengar) August 29, 2015
"I'll save you"
"Are you a lawyer?!"
"Better. I'm Amal Clooney. Actor's Wife."
"Thank god!" pic.twitter.com/SoSihUPpJ1
However AP did not take down the original tweet but about an hour later posted another tweet that referred to Clooney as a Human Rights lawyer.
Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney criticizes prison terms handed down to three Al-Jazeera English journalists http://t.co/66vCWMt1Gb
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 29, 2015
Overall, it comes as no surprise that Twitter came down hard on AP. Gender equality is a topic that is widely contended on Twitter and a news agency as prominent as AP identifying Clooney as by her husband’s profession in a story that is completely unconnected to Hollywood, seems to be a step back for feminism.
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