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BILLUND, DENMARK—As part of its new push toward inclusion and diversity, LEGO has unveiled a new set of genderless bricks without male or female connectors. The entirely smooth bricks have no suggestive male nubs or female receptors and instead have entirely smooth, androgynous sides all around. "This represents a new era in inclusive building bricks!" said LEGO spokesperson Bjørn Irkestøm-Slater Walker. "Finally -- anyone can play with our LEGOs without being triggered by those horrid male and female parts that imply they're only supposed to fit in one direction. Every brick can stack on any other brick without anyone misgendering...

British supermodel Stella Tennant died suddenly at the age of 50 on Tuesday. “It is with great sadness we announce the sudden death of Stella Tennant on 22nd December 2020,” her family said in a statement to The Sun. “Stella was a wonderful woman and an inspiration to us all. She will be greatly missed.” Continued the statement, “Her family ask for their privacy to be respected. Arrangements for a memorial service will be announced at a later date.” The Scottish-born beauty hailed from an aristocratic family; her grandmother was The Hon. Deborah Mitford, the youngest of the famous Mitford...

10/4/11 --- In this video, an androgynous guy started screaming at a Jewish man who was not part of OWS. The older Jewish man simply asked the younger confused kid what we was doing with his life, and why he can't just get done what he needs to. The andro hippie kid took it personally and started making racist comments against Jews. VIDEO

Teen icon Justin Bieber caused a fuss on the set of an Australian chat show during a recent trip Down Under - he swore at a production crew member who touched him. The Baby hitmaker, who is just 16 years old, stunned staff at Sydney-based morning TV show Sunrise last month when he cursed at a floor manager who led him to the performance stage. Sunrise host David Coch tells Aussie radio station Mix FM, "We had him on and he was a thoroughly nice bloke, really decent guy. "Our floor manager was directing him to where he was about...

What's Up With the Ugly Baby? Everyone's asking about the Passion scene where Satan is carrying a hideous infant. by Mark Moring | posted 03/01/04 "Please explain the symbolism in the scene showing Satan holding a bald baby. Thank you." That's just one of dozens of e-mails we've received in the last few days, asking about a surreal scene in The Passion of The Christ where Satan is showing cradling a hideous baby who looks like he's about 40 years old. The scene occurs during the flogging of Christ. Satan is passing through a crowd of onlookers, cradling an infant...

The latest Michael Jackson controversy perfectly mirrors the shallowness and exploitation at the center of the entertainment business. Jackson now seems to have become the three-dimensional picture of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, the man who looked forever young but kept a picture hidden that recorded his layers of crime and sickness. Jackson's reputation carries the foulings so emblematic of our time, revealing themselves in spiritual pustules. It is a strange tale. Jackson evolves from cute little exploited boy and lead singer in a bubble gum group of brothers all the way to a progressively eccentric and repulsive tabloid favorite. In...