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"Calling a frivolous girl a powder puff is all right. But calling girls, God's creations, human beings with immortal souls, by such names as him, rib, skirt, or tomato is slang, is language which St. Paul's Christian must avoid. One may not figuratively apply to any human beings, merely in their capacity as human beings, names which humiliate or belittle them. Definitely, when one does not specifically play against a correctable social and moral flaw, one should not apply any but complimentary comparisons to human beings. Otherwise one is guilty of slang in the true sense of the word. Conversation should beautify the world, not make it even uglier than it is. When a cadaver is called a stiff, life is made uglier. That which housed a human soul and cannot help its present condition may not be called an unedifying name. Generally, whatever is crude, any comparison that could rightly offend the much-cited Victorian maiden, even when otherwise apt or powerful, is slang in the objectionable |
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