On the Ordination of Women

I was reading an interesting article defending the Catholic Church's timeless tradition of ordaining only male priests.  One point caught my eye especially:

"Ordination to the ministerial priesthood is reserved to men because the Church is bound to follow the example of the Lord, who chose only men as his Apostles."

I believe this argument is a little weaker that the RCC would like it to be.  So far as this argument is concerned, the one characteristic that was both common to all the Apostles and relevant to the determination of whom the Church ought to ordain is gender.  But this is not necessarily so.  Take, for instance, the fact that every Apostle was Hebrew.  This criterion for ordination is obviously not a factor in modern discourse even though its prima facie merit is exactly the same as the Apostles' gender--namely that the Lord picked them all, so we ought to follow His example.

Of course I am being less than generous since other criteria are obviously crucial to determining who is fit for the priesthood.  Naturally all Apostles believed that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ, and so we ought to follow the Lord's example and only ordain believers.  This makes sense right off the bat.  What does not make sense right off the bat, however, is the argument that we ought to ordain only men to the priesthood since Christ only picked men as his Apostles.  This argument needs quite a bit more fleshing out before it can suffice, it seems.  (And of course there is a great deal of additional material defending the RCC's decision through the centuries.  My issue is with this one listed reason for forbidding female ordination.)