BROADCASTS.com

Dronme Davis tells a powerful story.\xa0 She was nine.\xa0 At the time, she had developed the habit of biting her nails until they were raw and sometimes even bleeding.\xa0 A teacher told her, in all seriousness, \u201cif you keep biting your nails, one day you\u2019re doing to meet a boy and you\u2019re going to want him to date you and he\u2019s going to be holding your hand and will look down and see how disgusting your hands are and he\u2019s not going to want to date you.\u201d Even as a nine-year-old, Dronme knew that there was something very wrong with this picture.\xa0 How could it be that her teacher didn\u2019t see the pain that she was holding, the pain that was pushing her to self-harm in this way?\xa0 How could it be that at nine, she is getting the message that her relationship to her body should be predicated on the perception of a potential partner?\xa0 That her body exists to make someone else happy?