Well, no one has ever written her in any other way, so any other perspective on her would be a fan-interpretation. Now, I totally respect fan interpretations and am on board with them, but I just...okay, I don't dislike her as much as I am severely apathetic toward her and get irritated by attempts to point out her good parts because they're not in the canon.
And the canon is what most people are reading and interpreting as okay/acceptable. And so at the gut level (not to say that others can't have different feelings or anything, but this is just me) it feels like I am implicitly forced to accept the very racist crap Grell is presenting and am giving it the okay in putting the effort into liking Shado.
And I can't, no more than I can like Conner and let myself feel it's okay to disrespect and misunderstand Buddhism like Dixon does.
I'm glad people are fannishly repossessing her beyond Grell's racism. These repossessions work by rejecting the problems written into her. But that's not me. That's not me making the impact on minority representations in comics I want to make, wherein I am willing to stick to my guns and not let things go because "that's just the way it's done/well, everything starts from stereotypes/another shitty unacceptable reason." Of course, you're not saying that nor is anyone who is repossessing her in a positive manner, but other privileged fans and/or the industry to whom I would present the facts listed here would, and that is just too Not Okay for me to accept.
Does that make sense?
