Anyone else infuriated by the "all nurses were bullies in high school" thing?

I've been dealing with everyone from my family members to strangers on the internet making the "haha nurses are all mean girls" joke for years, and I'm getting really fucking tired of it. I was bullied in middle/high school, so it's actually really hurtful to see people assume that because of my chosen profession, I must be a bully myself. I've even had people say that I must be lying about my experiences, because apparently my profession alone is enough to prove that I was the perpetrator rather than the victim and if I call people out for perpetuating this myth it must mean I'm "part of the problem". The "mean girl nurse" trope actually made me doubt whether I wanted to be a nurse, and I'm so glad I didn't let it deter me because I have never felt safer or more accepted than when I'm surrounded by my nursing school classmates. So I'm getting really tired of the stigma that this narrative creates for the nursing profession. Not saying that nurses can't be bullies, but I don't think we're any more prone to mean girl culture than any other field. If you're a pre-nursing student/aspiring nurse reading this post, please know that there's a place for you in nursing regardless of who you are.

Anyway, sorry for the rant. I just wish nursing as a whole was better understood by the public. "Nurses are bullies". "You signed up for this, don't complain". "It's disrespectful to talk about the dark things you see at work". "Why don't you just become a doctor?". The list goes on.