Subz
Once at work the transportation manager was complaining about needing to get a sub driver, and I said, "No one ever tells me anything." Pause. "I didn't even know we HAD a submarine." Transportation manager, "HAHAHA!" In Second Life we normal cantankerous and independent people rub elbows with subs - not substitutes or submarines, but submissives, who have a kind of control-based sexual role play going on. It used to bother me greatly (it went over really big when I offered to help one escape - haha!) but now I just see it as part of the shifting pattern of SL that reveals more layers of the human psyche than are dreamt of in my philosophy, so to speak.

Two of our yaks are submissives (actually one is on an alt), which means nothing much except that since subs want to wear special attachments for role play (so their dom can control them) and since the yak avatars are composed of attachments, the subs need to be careful as they don't want to mess up their role play by inadvertently replacing their sub accoutrements with a yak head and hooves. This is all voluntary and although it doesn't appeal to me one bit, it's what they like to do.

I blogged ages ago about some Christian dude asking me if I'd be submissive to him. I said, "No. Would you be submissive to me?" That caused him to splutter and shout - haha!