“Bodily appearance” by itself is not the issue, nor the notion that “the laity is too stupid to see Christ in a woman.”

The issues involve the theology of the Eucharist described in Hebrews, the iconic value of the elements and minister of the Sacrament, the divine constitution of the Sacrament, the identity of the one Sacrifice with the Mass in an anamnesis.

Attempting to rationalize it is precisely what led - in the West - to a series of destructive Eucharistic heresies.