“Does Brittany look oppressed to you?” Gabriel Hugoboom asked, gesturing toward his wife.

She did not. The model, clad in thigh-high black boots, was perched on a cream-coloured couch in the couple’s new apartment, poking fun at her critics. As editor-in-chief of Evie, a women’s publication opposed to what she calls “modern” feminism, Brittany Hugoboom has been accused of participating in her own subjugation and undermining women’s rights, claims she finds ridiculous and unfair.