@TatinG, I agree, but the answer is for them to stop making fun of people’s looks, period, not to expand the range of targets.
Re language in the tech world, back when I worked for a systems software company, I was startled to hear the programmers refer to the software/CPU as “he.” Using “she” to refer to boats and so on was common, this was the only time I’d heard the masculine pronoun used in such a way. Why, you might ask? Because “he” was logical. B-)