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What could possibly go wrong, right?
The Central Intelligence Agency's recent advertisement profiling a "cisgender millennial" agent is being criticized and ridiculed by social media, especially on Twitter where the hashtag #CIA is trending.
The ad follows a 36-year-old Latina CIA agent, who identifies herself as a "woman of color" who has been "diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder."
"I am intersectional, but my existence is not a box-checking exercise," the agent says in the video, later adding that she "refuse[s] to internalize misguided, patriarchal ideas of what a woman can or should be."
The agent says she previously struggled with imposter syndrome but has since become proud of her accomplishments.
"I am a walking declaration, a woman whose inflection does not rise at the end of her sentences, suggesting that a question has been asked," she says, adding that she can "change a diaper with one hand and console a crying toddler with the other."
The video, which makes no mention of the qualifications needed to work at the CIA or what the job entails, was mocked on Twitter by users who slammed the ad as an appeal to "woke millennials."