Site Meter Reflections on Playboy: The only high school in America that doesn’t sexualize its cheerleaders

April 21, 2009

The only high school in America that doesn’t sexualize its cheerleaders

I thank my friend Sudheer for emailing me this story.

Get your minds out of the gutter, fellas. Unless you’re as perverted as Wilson Bryan Key, there is nothing sexual about the above photograph. High school cheerleaders present a wholesome image of chastity, and so must their role models. Rhythmic jumping and kicking in short skirts is the least that teenage girls can do to draw attention to the efforts of the boys on the field, but posing nude for the Playboy Cyber Club is just wrong.

Or so the officials at Casa Roble High School near Sacramento, California, seem to think. Their cheerleading coach, Carlie Beck, became the February 9, 2009, Cyber Girl of the Week under the name Carlie Christine (NSFW). They found out and fired her. As it happens, she was ratted out by the parents of a girl who had been kicked off the cheerleading squad for too many unexcused absences. Spite makes the world go ’round, doesn’t it?

Whenever something like this happens, plenty of idiots blame the victim with statements like, “She should have known it would hurt her career.” Well, I’m romantic enough to lend moral support to a harmless act that shocks the squares, such as posing for Playboy. Let the shame belong to the pious bureaucrats instead.

On one of its free web pages, Playboy has posted a video of Carlie Christine’s reaction to her ouster. She proudly reports her upcoming promotion to June 2009 Cyber Girl of the Month, thanks to the votes of Cyber Club members. A personal crisis tends to reveal who one’s friends really are.

A related earlier post:
Playboy is supposedly irrelevant—even though it outrages sorority presidents

Posted by Brian Sorgatz at 1:17 PM

  • Anonymous Kimberly left this comment at April 21, 2009 1:26 PM  
    Playboy has become as iconic in the American culture as... cheerleading. It's hardly donkey porn. People worry too much about the wrong things.

    (Obviously I find myself qualified to determine what the wrong things are :) If only I were queen of the universe we could get everything right).

    But really, as a middle aged woman, I say more power to those that still have the chops to celebrate their own beauty. Self confidence is never a bad role model.

  • Anonymous Erelas RyAlcar left this comment at April 21, 2009 10:14 PM  
    I simply can't understand what the legal basis is or probably more in line ethical basis is for discharging this lovely lady. Did she do something illegal? No, not hardly, and it really is time the "powers that be" ignored the private lives of everyone and simply based job / advancement, etc. off of qualifications, performance, potential, not some outdated prudishness we should have left behind. Playboy has never been a vulgar, or what I would describe as pornographic medium, more of a tasteful source of art and a forum of appreciation for the female body.

  • Blogger Trooper Thorn left this comment at April 28, 2009 5:16 PM  
    She probably got of easy. Those cheerleading parents can be nuts.

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