The emoji cover fooled me. It wasn’t comical or funny. It was a pretty detailed sort-of-history of the butt from anatomy to physiology to anthropology and even the eugenics angle. Oh and a lot of pop culture. Tbh, I don’t know that I want to know more on the subject than this book has given me. What more could I want? It highlighted the problematic history of the West with the derrière through Sarah Baartman’s story and more (I found myself crying when her remains were finally laid to rest in South Africa), I learnt about the history of clothes sizing and how ridiculous the already imperfect system has become, and I watched the author rebuke the Kardashians and other white women who “put on” the features that come naturally to black women (who are generally looked down upon for having said features) and then take them off when it suits them.
It was a good read but my favourite quote from it didn’t even have anything to do with butts: 

“The existence of a man-made object is concrete evidence of the presence of human intelligence operating at the time of fabrication,” says art historian and object expert Jules Prown.
“Artifacts, then, can yield evidence of the patterns of mind of the society that fabricated them.” In other words, someone intentionally made every object that exists, and even if the maker didn’t realize what they were doing, they brought their culture, beliefs, and desires to the task.”