Isn’t it fabulous? Not only do we finally live in a world in which a woman can become president of the United States, just like a man, we live in one in which a woman can get a great job on TV and then go out and make a complete, utter, politically incorrect jackass of herself, just like a man.

You’ve come a long way, baby.

Lindsay, Britney, Paris … you have company, girlfriends. You aren’t the only ones out there making public spectacles of yourselves.

Yes, welcome to TV Media Women Gone Wild.

In the last few months alone, here are some of the publicly humiliating stunts that female TV personalities have pulled:

ESPN’s Dana Jacobson, 38, at a roast for radio personalities “Mike and Mike” two weeks ago in Atlantic City, N.J., made a number of vulgar comments – one was about Notre Dame, another about Jesus – that have led to her being suspended. Notre Dame’s football coach was among those in the audience.

The Golf Channel’s Kelly Tilghman, 37, on a telecast bantering with co-anchor Nick Faldo about how tough the world’s greatest golfer is to stop, joked that Tiger Woods’ rivals should lynch him in a back alley. She, too, was suspended.

Alycia Lane, 35, an anchorwoman from KYW-TV in Philadelphia, was arrested and accused of striking a plainclothes policewoman and using a sexual slur. Previously, Lane had sent a photo of herself in a bikini to NFL Network anchorman Rich Eisen that was intercepted by Eisen’s wife.

Amy Jacobson, a reporter for NBC’s affiliate in Chicago, turned up in a swimsuit for a party at the home of a missing woman’s husband, a story that Jacobson had been reporting. It resulted in the loss of her job.

Mirthala Salinas, 37, a Telemundo anchor in Los Angeles, was discovered to be having an affair with Antonio Villaraigosa, the city’s married mayor. It, too, led to her leaving the job, as well as to the mayor’s wife filing for a divorce.

Bad Girls, you are every bit as bad as Bad Boys. Welcome to the club. Equal time is a good thing, but sisters, you don’t need to go this far.

As a member of the male species, may I say it’s a relief to see how you women have been catching up to us pigs and pagans, slowly but surely, in advancing to high-profile media positions and then proceeding to become notorious for irresponsible and embarrassing behavior?

That’s progress! You’re not only every bit as good as us, if not better, you’re every bit as bad, if not worse.

Women have been playing catch-up in sports, media and politics, but bless their hearts, they are catching up.

I believe it was just this week that somebody made me aware a popular video going around of CBS’ Katie Couric caught off-camera, cussing her face off.

And another one shows ABC’s Diane Sawyer reeling when actress Diane Keaton drops a rather blunt profanity bomb on her.

Usually when somebody from TV has an embarrassing moment it’s a man’s fault.

Whether it is Broadway Joe Namath slurring that he would like to plant one on ESPN sideline reporter Suzy Kolber’s lips or then-Kansas basketball coach Roy Williams rudely telling ESPN’s Bonnie Bernstein how “I could not give a (flip)” about North Carolina, the women tend to be innocent bystanders.

Until lately, that is.