NEW MALE ARCHETYPE....MEN USING SPORTS TO HELP EMPOWER WOMEN!

I was watching our local news around the time of the Olympics, when they started talking about a man from our area who trains women boxers in Afghanistan. They said that the facility they train in is the same space that the taliban used to use to execute women. I think it's so incredibly powerful that they took back that space and are now using it to help teach women how to be powerful and how to fight back. I think it's so wonderful to see men using sports to help uplift women and give them opportunities they normally wouldn't have.

http://www.wgbh.org/News/Articles/2012/5/28/Afghan_Female_Boxers_Strike_A_Blow_For_Girl_Power.cfm

This next article is a little different, because it's not about men helping women gain access to sports equality, but rather about a group of high school football players using their position as athletes to help change the life of a young girl who was being teased because she was born differently abled. What I also love about this story is that it's such a great example of what it looks like when men and boys embody the energy of the Divine Masculine. Can you imagine what our planet would look like if all of them were like this all the time?

"He started asking her to eat at the cool kids' lunch table with him and his teammates. "I just thought that if they saw her with us every day, maybe they'd start treating her better," Carson says. "Telling on kids would've just caused more problems."

It got better. Starting running back Tucker Workman made sure somebody was walking between classes with Chy. In classes, cornerback Colton Moore made sure she sat in the row right behind the team.

Just step back a second. In some schools, it's the football players doing the bullying. At Queen Creek, they're stopping it. And not with fists -- with straight-up love for a kid most teenage football players wouldn't even notice, much less hang out with.

"I think about how sweet these boys are to her," says volleyball player Shelly Larson, "and I want to cry. I can't even talk about it."

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/8579599/chy-johnson-boys