They didn’t wait until the final few paragraphs to build this up as a gender/race conflict. “In 2018, skateboarding is going through a similar change from the

They didn’t wait until the final few paragraphs to build this up as a gender/race conflict. “In 2018, skateboarding is going through a similar change from the inside out. There’s increasingly less space between what skateboarding actually is and what a bunch of middle-aged men perceive it to be. That wave of change is best represented by the breakout success of Nora Vasconcellos.” I’d argue the “white” in “middle-aged men” is implicit.