Under My Thumb: Coercive Control and the Sensitive Victim
Domestic abusers who portray themselves as sensitive, sweet, and a victim of others are among the most deceptive and destructive.
The Rolling Stone’s song “Under my Thumb” is supposedly about a victimized man who was pushed around by his woman. Finally he’d had enough, so he decided to push back—by abusing her.
Of course, Mick Jagger doesn’t admit to the abusive aspect of his lyrics. In an interview from 1984 he stated: “The whole idea was that I…