This is the On the Media Midweek podcast. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Last fall, the book everyone was talking about was Naomi Klein's doppelganger, a trip into the mirror world.

In it, she described how she, Naomi Klein, had been confused with

Naomi Wolf for much of her career. Wolf rose to prominence with the book The

Beauty Myth in the 90s, establishing herself as a

best-selling feminist writer. Klein on the other hand wrote acclaimed critiques of

capitalism such as No Logo in the shock doctrine.

The confusion of the two writers incessant on social media escalated when Wolf became a peddler

of COVID-19 conspiracies. But recently in an amusing turnabout, Wolf discovered that a fellow

anti-Vaxer was spreading a conspiracy theory about her.

I am not a deep stable operative.

Naomi Wolf.

But the fact that I have to say that to anyone

is so regrettable and insulting and offensive and defamatory, you know, and frankly exhausting

because I've done nothing for the last two and a half years

but get kicked out of my former life as a well-known feminist commentator on the left

for telling the truth about women being injured by the MR. R. D. Meanwhile, Naomi Klein is so often mistaken for her

conspiracist counterpart than in the interview she did just before hours

last fall, the TV host called her by Wolf's name.

It's so unrelenting that someone tweeted a rhyme that became something of a meme.

If the Naomi be Klein, you're doing fine. If the Naomi be Klein, you're doing fine.

If the Naomi be Wolf, oh buddy, oof.

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