History Website / RejectedPrincesses

* {{Transgender}}: The entry on [[http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/osh-tisch Osh-Tisch]], a Crow ''baté'', has an entire subsection discussing the pitfalls in discussing Native American Two-Spirits as they relate to the modern concept of Transgender identity.

* [[TheManBehindTheMan The Woman Behind The Woman]]: Joan of Arc's entry from the book makes the case that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolande_of_Aragon Yolande of Aragon]] was this for Joan and getting her in front of the King of France in the first place.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: If the historical woman's ethnicity was something of a question mark Jason will often draw them this way, for instance [[http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/tomyris Tomyris]] and [[http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/tirgatao Tirgatao]] since it's not known what exactly "Scythians" looked like. [[http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/isabella-of-france Philipa of Hainault]] is also portrayed with an ambiguous skin tone as there's debate as to what her ethnicity was with the only specifics that have survived in the record being that she was "brown-skinned all over". Similarly, [[http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/zelia-nuttall Zelia Nuttall]] was known to have an Irish father but the exact ethnicity of her mother is uncertain though she was at least born in Mexico.

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Several of the entries are of women who were vilified after their deaths, and Jason makes the case that while many of them were probably not very nice people the most extreme claims are probably false.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: If the historical woman's ethnicity was something of a question mark Jason will often draw them this way, for instance [[http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/tomyris Tomyris]] and [[http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/tirgatao Tirgatao]] since it's not known what exactly "Scythians" looked like. [[http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/isabella-of-france Philipa of Hainault]] is also portrayed with an ambiguous skin tone as there's debate as to what her ethnicity was with the only specifics that have survived in the record being that she was "brown-skinned all over". Similarly [[http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/zelia-nuttall Zelia Nuttall]] was known to have an Irish father but the exact ethnicity of her mother is uncertain though she was at least born in Mexico.

* [[HeWhoFightsMonsters She Who Fights Monsters]]: Vitka Kempner and the other members of ''Ha-Nokmim'' ("The Avengers"), a jewish resistance group during [=WW2=], became steadily more merciless as the war went on, murdering civilians on sight out of fear that they might report them to the Nazis. After the war, they reformed into ''Nakam'', "Revenge", who plotted to poison the waterworks of major German cities, killing 6 million germans, including children and those with no affiliation to the Nazi regime. Thankfully, both that plan and their backup plan (poisoning German [=POWs=]) failed.

* [[HeWhoFightsMonsters She Who Fights Monsters]]: Vitka Kempner and the other members of ''Ha-Nokmim'' ("The Avengers"), a jewish resistance group during [=WW2=], became steadily more merciless as the war went on, murdering civilians on sight out of fear that they might report them to the nazis. After the war, they reformed into ''Nakam'', "Revenge", who plotted to poison the waterworks of major German cities, killing 6 million germans, including children and those with no affiliation to the Nazi regime. Thankfully, both that plan and their backup plan (poisoning German [=POWs=]) failed.

* BadassGay: Along with several women who were suspected to have been lesbian or bisexual during their time periods, a few verifiable ones are [[http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/julie-daubigny Julie d'Aubigny]] and [[http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/catalina-de-erauso Catalina de Erauso]].

* AntiRoleModel: The idea for the website came about when Porath and some fellow Dreamworks employees saw a clickbait article about "Why [[Disney/{{Frozen}} Elsa and Anna]] are bad role models for girls", decided that they could think of ''way worse'' role models for girls, and challenged each other to see who could think of the worst one. (The winner? ''{{Literature/Lolita}}''.)

* [[HeWhoFightsMonsters She Who Fights Monsters]]: Vitka Kempner and the other members of ''Ha-Nokmim'' ("The Avengers"), a jewish resistance group during WW2, became steadily more merciless as the war went on, murdering civilians on sight out of fear that they might report them to the nazis. After the war, they reformed into ''Nakam'', "Revenge", who plotted to poison the waterworks of major German cities, killing 6 million germans, including children and those with no affiliation to the Nazi regime. Thankfully, both that plan and their backup plan (poisoning German [=POWs=]) failed.

* VirginPower: Brought up in regards to the "super chastity" claims made about several Princesses, especially how [[http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/catalina-de-erauso Catalina de Erauso]] pretty much used this as a GetOutOfJailFreeCard ''and'' got her a special dispensation from the Pope allowing her to crossdress, and [[http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/zenobia Zenobia's]] powers being attributed to her only having sex to conceive a child.

* RuleOfSymbolism: Many of the illustrations will employ this, with one of the best being [[http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/rosalind-franklin Rosalind Franklin]]'s entry showing her working in the dark while Watson and Crick are shown receiving the Nobel Prize and a shadowy hand belonging to Watson reaching out to grab her famous Photo 51 and take the credit for himself.

-->The west called her The Female Caligula, but if half what they said is true, he was more a male Ranavalona.

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The site covers several women rulers who have been vilified, including [[http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/mahendradatta Mahendradatta]], [[http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/elisabeth-bathory Elisabeth Bathory]], [[http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/wu-zetian Wu Zetian]] and [[http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/ranavalona-i Ranavalona]].

* BreachOfPromiseOfMarriage: A major factor in the legal case of Artemisia Gentileschi from the book, since her rapist Tassi had promised to marry her after raping her but later reneged on his promise, which prompted the Gentileschis to charge him in court and eventually win their case.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Jason will often point out that a historical woman's morality by modern standards may differ ''significantly'' from what's considered acceptable today.

* BaldWomen: [[http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/masako-hojo Masako Hojo]] is depicted as this showing how she became a Buddhist nun. Jason admits that the illustration is mixing her history a bit since she wasn't yet a nun at the time of the incident where she flattened Lady Kame's house after she found out her husband was cheating on her with the other woman, but he wanted to show her as bald.

* RunningGag: From the book, the footnotes saying "Josephine Baker had issues with [fill in the blank]" when mentioning her many personality flaws.