AIBU to hate the phrase "put on" contraception?

[Cabrinha]

Just read it again on here. (not a TAAT I think as I'm not talking about the content, just this very common phrase).

I hate it!
It's so passive. I hear people say it all the time, about themselves not just their children.
No-one "puts me" on contraceptives.
I go to the clinic and they explain and prescribe and enable it, but the decision is mine.

It's a small thing in the great scheme of things... But this phrase always gets my goat!

I don't think the OP has explained herself terribly well, but I know what she means.

It's the threads where you get someone saying - 'My DD is 14, should I put her on the pill' - not should I talk to her about sex, should I see if she is sexually active, should I discuss contraception but 'Should I put her on the pill' as if she's a dog, not a person.

I have never heard this phrase beyond 'putting on' a condom.

But I have been 'on' antibiotics etc so isn't this just the same thing?

Vermillion I'm not your sister

Would be interesting to see the responses if this thread had been posted on the feminism board. On the one hand it's "just a phrase," but OTOH the phrase has a meaning, and the language we use is important when it comes to retaining agency over our own health choices.

People are 'put on' all sorts of medication. Heart tablets, vitamin tablets, high blood pressure tablets etcetc.

It is normal to say you have been put on medication.

YANBU, I also hate 'they wouldn't let me leave the hospital until...'

Unless detained under the Mental Heath Act* you cannot be held in a hospital against your will and can just walk out at any time you choose. Attempts to hold you could constitute false imprisonment.

We defer far to much to professionals; doctors in particular and should be a lot more assertive as a society IMO.

• I also dislike the term 'sectioned' for the same reasons, which is often used as a shorthand here.

It is normal to say you have been put on medication

Just because something has become normal, that doesn't make it right.

...far too much

It's absolutely fine to dislike terminology. Words are pretty powerful and conjure different images for different people. Absolutely nobody can argue that you are unreasonable to dislike a phrase. We all do it. I don't like it either tbh and it is the implied passivity and lack of active ownership I suppose. See also 'fell pregnant with' or ' we are pregnant'.

I have an aversion to food descriptors too. Morsels and slivers and crumbs and soupçons. Picky bits makes my vagina turn inside out in sheer disgust.

I completely agree with the op, when you are not a Dr and you make the comment about a third party as in "I got my DD put on the pill" it implies the third party did not have much of a choice in the matter and that it was something only within your control.