![]() She named the tank "Fighting Girlfriend." The illustration shows her sitting atop her tank, anthropomorphized in Cars-like fashion, amid a battle. ![]() Porath says Oktyabrskaya's husband was killed by the Nazis, so she sold all of her belongings in order to buy a tank and fight. One of his favorite examples is the aforementioned Soviet tank commander, Sergeant Mariya Oktyabrskaya. "It's sort of an alternate-reality glimpse into, 'What if they got their moment in the sun?' " "I take women, sort of unsung heroines - usually from history, but a lot from mythology and some from literature - who wouldn't necessarily make the cut for mainstream animated princess movies, and give them that style," Porath tells NPR's Arun Rath. Each week, former DreamWorks animator Jason Porath adds a new illustration and write-up about a woman who is, as the blog says, "too awesome, awful or offbeat for kids' movies." Theirs are not the kind of stories you find in a Disney princess flick, but they're in the spotlight on the blog Rejected Princesses. But put Snow White, Cinderella, Belle and Ariel aside for a moment and consider these characters: A transgender Native American, a tank commander and a Mexican revolutionary. Many of us have come to know the tales of Disney's princesses by heart. ![]() Oktyabrskaya was the first female tanker to ever win the Hero of the Soviet Union award. Sergeant Mariya Oktyabrskaya is one of the women featured on Jason Porath's blog Rejected Princesses. ![]()
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