womonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From woman; respelled so as not to contain man.

名詞

womon

1. (nonstandard) Feminist spelling of woman
   • 1980 April 19, “Classified advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14:

     Womon seeks womon to share 2 bdrm apt in JP.

   • 1996 December 6, Suki L. McDonough, “What's Up?”, in soc.women.lesbian-and-bi (Usenet):

     I don't think she was saying that you become responsible for the racism directed at you once you identify as a black womon, only that one could not assume that any given netizen was or was not a member of a minority without self-identification.

   • 1996, Judith Blazer Foster, “Land in the Ozarks”, in The new Our Right To Love: A Lesbian Resource Book, page 67:

     But it does insure that the community won't lose the land if a womon decides, for whatever reason, not to pay.

別の表記

• womyn