This great work of art (sarcasm alert, for those who don't recognize it) was posted on Facebook. It's supposed to be funny. But I fail to see the humor. Personally, I detect a fair bit of misogyny in this picture.
For those who argue that "it (the unicorn) doesn't exist, so it doesn't have to follow the laws of nature," that's all fine and good, I suppose. But as someone who writes horror and fantasy stories, I do try to make my creatures follow certain laws of nature. Otherwise, they're doing it "just because I said so," and that really doesn't make for a very good story. This particular cartoon is extremely juvenile humor, and while I may find juvenile humor funny at times (nothing wrong with a good fart joke) I really don't find mean humor funny. I find this cartoon to be mean-spirited. If that makes me a crybaby, so be it. I'd rather be a crybaby than someone who had no feelings of kindness or sympathy.
Just an afterthought, but unicorns are modeled on horses. Horses do not have mammary glands in the pectoral area the way humans do. Like other hooved mammals, a female horse has an udder. It is near her back legs.
Good humor always has some thought put into it. Mean humor is cheap and rarely at all funny.
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