Negativity around buying/owning a motorcycle.

I recently got my permit and bought a bike and have signed up for the basic riders course at the end of the month. It feels like every time I turn around someone is making snarky comments about riding/owning a motorcycle. Everyone and their mother has tried telling my stories about someone they knew that died or was paralyzed on a bike like I was born yesterday knowing I know someone who was in the icu for close to a year following an accident. Even today I was trying to work on the e-course during some downtime at work today and a coworker whom I hadn’t met till today made a snarky comment about it. How do yall deal with/respond in these types of situations? It has me feeling discouraged and almost wanting to sell my bike just to not listen to people’s nonsense anymore.