I feel like nowadays skateboarding attracts some different people as like 15 years ago. I can't count the times some jock saw me skating and asked to try my board. Probably thinking, "if that fat nerd can do that, I can do that too".
Me, the fat nerd spent a lot of time to learn kickflips and the jock realizes, that shit is actually difficult and continues to play with some kind of ball or tune his car. (You can insert here a paragraph about our society, which doesn't want to put in work and want fast success and attention, but that's just me yelling at clouds, and I don't feel that old yet with 30.)
I also heard a few woman (30+ years old) telling me, they prefer skating men over other men. I mean, there are men which just walk around with their homies, acting hard, listen to weird music, go to shopping malls and play Fifa. And that's it, that's their life.
And no, we as skaters are not better people because we play with that "cool" toy, but I think we are at least a bit more interesting.
TLDR Some people maybe think skateboarding is interesting.