I agree with you, ATF.  I think that the preoccupation with that particular "bit of male flesh" would be considered silly and amusing if it did not cause so much harm and pain to so many.  
It can certainly be argued that God, knowing full well the cultural and scientific limitations of the people at that particular point in time believed that the Christ had to come as a male, because the possibility o a female Christ was simply beyond the comprehension of the people of that time.  
It's the same thing with this insistence on calling God "He".   
It seems to me that those people who do not want a female priest could always go to a parish that had a male priest.  Why should they limit everyone else to their preferences and comfort zone and prevent the ordination of women, simply because it makes them unhappy and uncomfortable?