WATCH: USSS agent abandoned post at Trump event to breastfeed her baby

Some things are difficult, for example, working as a paralegal or a store clerk while a new mother. But some things are impossible, for example, serving as an active Secret Service agent while a new mother. Take maternity leave? Definitely. Serve on restricted duty, that is, ride a desk? Absolutely. Hire a nanny while on shift? One hundred percent.

But serve on active duty with no nanny? This means doing a second-rate job at both your occupations. It means barely meeting your obligations at both your jobs. “You can have it all.” Maybe. Sometimes, But sometimes only by being second-rate at “all.”

Giving women goals that only a super-woman can meet? Is this a favor? Is this a triumph of feminism? No, it is masculinism: The ideal woman is like a man, career oriented, with being a wife and mother strictly secondary. That’s a favor? That’s feminism in the 21st century? No, it’s the opposite. It’s exemplified by a boxer with XY chromosomes, and muscles to go with them, beating a female boxer in 46 seconds at the Paris Olympics. It means awarding a gold medal to this boxer who didn’t lose a single round to all the women he boxed to reach the medal stand.

If you make impossible demands, you guarantee failure. With friends like these…