HARD-HITTING DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES OF THE WAR ON TERROR: The Washington Post squees giddily over “The subversive feminism of two Obama staffers’ Secret Service codenames:”

Secret Service code names tend toward the masculine, if for no other reason than the majority of people who need them are of the dude persuasion. President Obama is “Renegade.” President George W. Bush is “Trailblazer.”  Even many women’s names, though typically far less aggressive, skew androgynous. For example, Michelle Obama is “Renaissance,” while Laura Bush is “Tempo.”

So the decision by two top Obama staffers to go by names that sound more like twee kittens than the latest SUV models was a departure from the norm. Nancy-Ann DeParle and Alyssa Mastromonaco, who served together as deputy chiefs of staff from 2011-2013, intentionally went for the ultra-feminine when selecting their monikers: Peaches and Popsicle, respectively.

As revealed in “Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing The Way America Works,” the just-out book by Time correspondent Jay Newton-Small, the duo eschewed their male predecessors’ presumably alpha-male-appropriate code names and picked ones that poked the patriarchy. The women “delighted in watching the mostly male, macho Secret Service agents announce the arrival of Popsicle and Peaches,” Newton-Small writes.

Related: “SecNav Bans Marine Job Titles With Term ‘Man’ to Ensure Gender Neutrality.”

Meanwhile, as the White House continues to fight hard on the the language front, ISIS’ “jihadi technical college” in Raqqa is teaching eager students how to build surface-to-air missiles.

Don’t worry — I’m sure the correct gender-neutral pronouns will protect us.