The root of the whole idea of ordaining women to the priesthood is simply pride and foolishness.
And part of that pride is pride in thinking we can dope out what can only be revealed.
My personal conjecture for ONE reason God invented the sexes is this. Men and women are undoubtedly alike in being potentially rational animals. In every other important respect they are so different as to be complete mysteries to one another.
So when we see angels, we will already have been familiar with rational creatures utterly unlike ourselves, so it won't be so weird to meet other rational creatures utterly unlike ourselves.
That's my argument, and I'm sticking to it.
But the serious part of it is that we just cannot demonstrate knowledge of the nature of the sexes conclusively. We can't even agree what the differences are. (George Gobel: I always thought of women as, kind of, round men.) With that undeniable ignorance, to think that we can play around with gender roles is sheer madness. It HAS to be a matter of revelation, of a decree from a higher and more competent court with unquestionable jurisdiction.
To say that Jesus chose men for Apostles because of social conditioning is laughable. It's about as laughable to say that HE was hip enough to KNOW that wimmins would be just as good at the whole apostle thing as men are, only He couldn't close the sale on the society of His age.
So we're left with, He chose men. He was God the Son of God. You wanna tangle with that, be my guest. I ain' messin' widdit.
I just rescued an 8 week old kitten of the male persuasion. Name of "Clint not Clinton Junior Lightning".
He is definitely a guy. I mean even if he weren't the only cat I've ever had who plays with my ammo, he is just guyish. Our other cat, Pollyanna Rivanna Luxapalila Chincoteague Dot Org, when she wants to play, sort of cocks her head to oneside until it's almost upside down. Clint just acts like a 10 inch tall grizzly bear. He doesn't do coy.
It's a mystery.
I rest my case.