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I mean, in a ton of animal species the males are a lot showier than the females. Think peacocks, lions, elephant seals... So male Meganium doesn't seem weird, all things considered.

Personally I do agree that a 50/50 ratio for starter genders would be nicer, but mostly so that it's easier to get whichever gender you want, not so much because of how the Pokémon look.
 

As someone who is neither male or female, I actually find it kind of nice when 'mons don't fit into traditional gender roles  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It's cute when my Pokémon have something in common with me.

For what it's worth, it probably helps to consider the difference in perspectives here. From the position of someone actually living in the Pokemon World, it doesn't matter- that's simply the way things are, and have always been. For them, it isn't that braixen pulls from the Magical Girl genre, with a splash of Cute Witch for good measure- if anything, it probably inspired the realm's own version of those tropes. (We know that this is a thing that can happen since it's been confirmed that the vanillite line inspired ice cream cones, rather than the other way around). Similarly, they probably don't have a Delphi (at least, not in the way we know it), so that part of delphox's inspiration isn't at all relevant from their perspective, specifically because that cultural concept is irrelevant.

It winds up mattering to us because from our perspective, the tropes and cultural influences came first, and due to the immensely binary nature of our world for the past several millennia, they carry a significant amount of gender-based baggage with them. And if there's one concept that's been cropping up a lot this past decade or so, it's that people really don't like having their gender-based views challenged.

Admittedly, the fact that I don't feel as strongly about the popplio line's Gender Ratio as I do the fennekin line's probably has to do with how my personal perspective on such matters shifted between their reveals. I hadn't been through my questioning phase by the time the X and Y Hype Train rolled around, and consequently latched strongly to the gender aspects to the tropes present in braixen's design and delphox's nomenclature. On the other hand, I had done so by the time Sun and Moon were revealed, and as such didn't react to primarina as a 'selkie prima donna' (two similarly female-heavy concepts), or even from the common The Little Mermaid parallel point of view, but rather as a sea lion opera singer (a gender neutral concept and an animal that rarely gets such things forced onto it). 

...I should probably leave this psuedo-thread alone at this point, huh?

understandable. the main reason I care about the genders of mons is literally just for nicknaming. Can't really name a Male Primarina after Azura from FE Fates now, can you? Never had that with Delphox as much because the nickname I gave the first Delphox I had was Mister Y (as in a pun for Mystery. I know it's bad)