Is it normal to see clowns as antagonists?

Sorry for any clown fans out there, but all my life I've considered clowns antagonistic. To me, they're the kind of people who would pie you in the face for no reason, pretend to apologise, and then do it again but with a cake. They're the kind of mean-spirited people who would cruelly humiliate you in public and then make a ridiculous excuse for it, like "they're laughing with you, not at you." And then if you told one to leave you alone, they would do that irritating mock crying thing and act as though you "hurt their feelings" when all they wanted was to "have a little fun" in some pathetic attempt to make you feel like you're the one in the wrong.

In my eyes clowns are mentally ill manchildren who think that bullying people is a joke, wearing their colourful face paint as a disguise to decieve people into thinking that their intentions are meant to be humorous. This is why I also see them as paedophilic as well. I don't know why but when I picture a clown, I always picture them amongst a group of young children, all laughing at everything it does and looking up to it as their hero - as if the clown acts childish just to get closer to hyperactive children because he has no adult companions. I even find it disturbing how they sell clown costumes for children to wear for this very reason. The idea of a "child clown" disturbs me.

Is it normal to have this view on clowns, or am I stereotyping them? I know there are loads of good-natured clowns out there, but I think that the clown's image is that of a bully and not a friend.