Heh! But don't you understand, dear, that it's all about feeling superior to others? So the implication of "I appreciate a flawed heroine and I have compassion for her" is basically another way of saying "I'm better and smarter than Some Other Group of People" which is what seems to be the raison d'être of an astonishingly large portion of fandom ;)

As for me, I prefer to reserve my compassion for real people and like or dislike fictional characters for whatever rational and/or irrational reasons that I have because, hello, FICTIONAL CHARACTERS!