First, Pan, there are NO throngs here. That may be where your perspective goes awry. There are a countable number of posters, most who have posted here for years as a small group of mainstays and others who come and go--like most blogs, if I'm not mistaken (no great expert on that).  


I think the Catholic Church should open the priesthood to marriage, yes. I think that that would provide a healthier culture than what we have now, alleviating LofL's distress that Catholic priests have to spend time with women at the Ladies' Breakfast instead of playing poker with real men, and every priest having to know that the public thinks they live in a toxic homosocial culture. I don't think marriage itself makes a man more understanding of women, but also know that celibacy doesn't either. What I actually found more important in the understanding of women is whether a priest had sisters or not--I presume they had mothers...although there are 'only-child' priests who really work at it all more.