Winter Wear 2007: Made for a woman, Strong enough for a man

Why does anyone care if a scarf is "made for a man" or "made for a woman"?
Can you even tell whether the scarves in the above pictures are made for a certain gender?
Ok, so I bought two wool pashminas (above). I like the colours (they seem to sell only black, blue, grey and maroon for men) and I like the length (these are almost twice as long as any man's scarf I can find, so I can fold it in half and loop it around into itself easily). It's not like I don't have dark blue and grey scarves, but I've found I prefer to wear these this year and brighten up my own day.

I'm not pushing too many envelopes here, sometimes it seems that all I wear is black.

I have come to the conclusion that people (including my mother) get way too touchy on gender issues and colour. It's a friggin' piece of fabric, get over it.