Copy Editor vs. BDSM Capitalization

[pantryslut]

I just had a mini-meltdown at work over the capitalization preferences of certain BDSM practitioners.

Specifically:

a) The preference for Dom/sub versus Dom/Sub;

b) The fondness for constructions such as "W/we," "O/our," etc.

I finally just started ranting along these lines:

"Those uppity submissives should just stop asserting their independence and allow themselves to be subsumed under the capital letter of their Dominant, already!"

Yeah. OK. Maybe it's time for a break.

Comments

[innerdoggie.livejournal.com]

Is there some old-fashioned editing rule you can use and ignore everybody's neo-capitalizations just like you might ignore their non-standard spelling?

Chicago Manual of Style or something like that?

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Yes, but not when they write their own profiles, which I then have to read day in and day out...