Is Fat Funny?

I was watching a Hindi movie the other day and a "comedy" scene came on. The hero was making fun of a fat guy. The whole shared went on for nearly 10 min. and it was supposed to be funny but I found it offensive. As time went on i started to scrutinize the media, both Indian and American for such "Comedy sequences" and almost in all cases the jokes were to the limit of being cruel. The jokes we play on fat people are almost offensive to the limit it can crush someone’s spirit. The media portraits these slim and trim people as beautiful that it becomes a social crime to be fat or overweight. It almost drives a person to insanity.
Once when was driving to college in India, I saw a family on a bike. The man riding, a kid in-between and the women behind, this woman was obese. A few young men on their bikes behind them were making fun of the way the women’s behind looked on the bike. They made jesters that made my skin crawl, but the women could not see since they were behind her. It was so repulsive and scary that each time I sat on a bike I made sure I wore a long jacket. Having fun at the cost of a person's looks and discarding one as people is immature.
When whole Shoaib Malik and Sania Mirza controversy came to light about his alleged wife, people almost discredited the wife's claim because she was fat and hence ugly(I am not supporting the wife but just using one parameter of the situation as an example. Since this parameter is very real in the scene of social opinion).I was stumped, how ridiculous is that? What is the society who judges and rejects a spouse’s claim over the other half because of the shape, size, and looks? That is not a social prerogative its individual choice. If a person chose to be with a person knowing what the other person looks like that’s the end of the matter. Marriage is more about personality than looks, looks makes it easier to start loving a person but a bad personality can totally over power looks. This is the same society that makes a woman with her husband even though he is abusive, alcoholic and disrespected.

Health on the other hand is a perfectly good reason to be fit, and every person should take it seriously. I still want to lose the 35 pounds I have accumulated over the past 2 years, I will feel proud once I do, hell I will post pictures of my before and after on the same blog because “I want to” .I will advice my friends on losing weight and tell my family to be fitter because “I care about their overall health” . Making cruel remarks about the weight is wrong even if it makes people laugh.
Same is true about non- English speakers, challenged people, little people etc.
“Joke is funny until everyone is laughing at it and is cruel when everyone is laughing at someone.”