In my country, Egypt, since Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down, we have effectively replaced one patriarch with another: first a military junta, then Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood and now Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, the former head of military intelligence. The Islamists and the military represent the binary of political poles we’ve been forced to oscillate between for decades. But we must be clear that most Islamists and the military - authoritarian and especially patriarchal – don’t care about women’s rights.