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No, I think I can say without hyperbole that you guys are heroes for taking a stand with respect to this point.

Hah!

For what it's worth, I don't particularly disagree with Shrike's principles, either, with regard to defining one's relationships and not letting other people do it (so long as the respect demanded is extended as well, of course). The word 'semantic' almost has a connotation of irrelevance, but semantic distinctions are important, because words shape thoughts, and color our expressions, and thus our common understandings of concepts. One thing I find exasperating is the way the lack of a neutral term in many comparative concepts. Like 'amoral' in between 'moral' and 'immoral', but for "like" or "enjoy". You have to explain yourself if you neither like nor dislike something, which can be socially awkward if you are trying to demur without rejecting, because for whatever reason, we think "don't like" is synonymous with "dislike". We need more adjectives & expressions that are equivalents of zero.