Brexit and the worldwide patriarchal conspiracy

A staggering piece yesterday. Brexit will 'screw over women' in particular because Bexit will set events off into an inevitable chain. First there will be a shortage of care assistants from the EU; second this will mean a general shortage of insitutitonal care for the elderly; third the elderly will have to be cared for at home; fourthly, home care will mean fewer women will be able to work. Intervene at any stage to explore assumptions, as you wish. It is all based on a Department of Health Report leaked to the Daily Telegraph, which admits the whole thing is 'admittedly a worst-case scenario' arising 'if EU migrants are barred from coming to the UK'. 'Barred'!

However, in skilled hands there can only be one conclusion:

It’s tempting to see this as yet another unexpected down side to the June 2016 vote. After all, who could have predicted this? (I mean, apart from anyone who’s bothered to think seriously [a link to another Telegraph article on the EU's role in promoting workplace equality legislation] about the relationship between workplace equality and the European Union.)...In truth, though, I think Brexit and the desire for a return to traditional gender roles have always gone hand in hand. The repression of female advancement is not a side-effect, but a fundamental part of what was longed for as part of the Brexit package. And now we’re getting it... Many of the sentiments that formed a backdrop the Leave vote – misty-eyed visions of colonial dominance, lazy fantasies of Blitz spirit pluck – betray a yearning for a time before paid maternity leave, childcare vouchers, the Equal Pay Act, workplace equality targets and all-women shortlists. It’s a time when life was simpler and everyone knew their place – men in the factory, women in the home. A time before identity politics, marital rape laws and crises of working-class white masculinity. 

Of course there was also:

frustration at feeling ignored by a distant political class, hunger for any form of change, the promise of that extra £350m for the NHS, a decades-long diet of racism and immigrant-blaming from the right-wing press [and elites using] ...the twin evils of red tape and human rights legislation to position an undeserving other (women, ethnic minorities) as the real victims. Race is undoubtedly a factor. So, too, is gender. 

It all adds up when we consider that it was the over-65s who voted most clearly for Brexit, and that a majority of women in every category (except that one) opposed Brexit. All parties hold to the view that women are the main carers. 

Then the most convincing evidence:

I know my parents don’t believe their vote was harmful to women of my generation, nor would they have wished it to be. From their perspective, EU-endorsed feminist ideology and uncontrolled immigration robbed their only daughter of the traditional stay-at-home role I was born to have.

And some indirect quotation (?) from somewhere unknown -- (parents again?) as a final condemnation of  'the deal patriarchy is offering'

We’ll all muck in! It’ll be like the war! Only we won’t be sending men to the front line, just women back to the kitchen! I can’t wait!

I wonder what has fuelled this rant the most -- the personal Oedipal conflict with parents, generalized into a hatred of Brexiteers, especially the over-65s, or a considered case about the EU's role in promoting gender equality?