BMX isn't really that cool

My essential problem with BMX freestyle is more my problem than BMX's: that is, I don't think BMX is an alternative or "other" activity anymore. Perhaps it never was. Still, it felt like not-hockey for a long time. Now, dare I say it, it is worse than hockey? Name a more masculine culture/sport? With apologies to the 14 women who entered the Vancouver Metro Jam's "Girls" class, this truly is a sausage party. Why on earth would a young woman be interested in participating in the activity of BMX freestyle? Well over 99% male. And the males are increasingly of the jock / Maxim magazine mentality. Horrible.
Freestyle emerged as not-racing, and culturally became outside mainstream cultures. Now, post 1995 Extreme, the young males that would have been into hockey / football / baseball in the 1980s are drawn to the extreme culture of BMX freestyle. So, we have middle-class suburban types that would have laughed at us in the 1980s as the core participants of the culture. Weird.
Of course, perhaps the biggest thing 30something riders that run BMX freestyle nowadays keep forgetting is that it is a culture for 15 year olds. And what 15 year old is going to listen to an adult (even if the adult in question is somewhat diminished by their 23 years of BMX). And to be honest, should they?