Kataang shipper: Katara could never be Fire Lady because she'd be stripped of her culture and reduced looking pretty and making babies.
I find it so weird that ka's version of Katara is such a push over that she would just let her culture be taken away. You're telling me that the girl that forced an entire tribe to drop their culturally embedded misogyny for her, would just go 'oh, ok' when some idiot told her she couldn't wear furs or couldn't celebrate the solstice?
But we're the ones mischaracterizing her.
Pictured above: The Katara that would allow herself to be stripped of culture.
Who would take her right to participate in her culture?
The guy who became a traitor to his nation? Who chose to give up his chance at the crown, not once, but twice? The same guy who is canonically changing Fire Nation culture at the school level and canonically had a vested interest in rebuilding the SWT?
That Zuko would tell Katara she can't wear blue? The Zuko that had his life threatened by Katara and knows she could bloodbend him into a pretzel, would tell her fur isn't appropriate for court?
Pictured above: The Zuko that would tell Katara that she's not allowed any cultural forms of expression or wear blue.
Katara is one of the most powerful waterbenders in the world and the biggest advocate for justice in the series, but apparently Katara is too weak to defend her right to her culture and its practices.
She would be a representative of the SWT possibly the NWT, a friend of the avatar and King Kuei who owes her a debt for helping him get his kingdom back. A councilman would risk pissing off a woman with that many connections and influence over hair loopies?
Even if they did, the fact that they think Katara wouldn't be tenacious about fighting to display her culture or wouldn't possess the audacity to publicly wear her skins, beads and furs even after she was told not to, is an insult to her character. We haven't even gotten to how she happily and easily siezes power and control over situations at only 14, they think she'd do less as an adult? Some of them really do enjoy the cut down caged bird Bryke has made her into and it shows.
Zutara isn't canon, what happens in a Zutara storyline is completely up to the creator to choose and the fact that kataangers are constantly choosing for Katara being stripped of her cultural identity, her power and her autonomy is telling, maybe it's even projection.