Stumbler

"Without more context, picking such a fight sounds rather extreme to me." But would you consider it extreme if a transperson wanted to put their preferred pronouns and were not allowed to (due to a policy of forbidding pronoun declaration)? If the entire purpose of the exercise is meant to be the provision of freedom to express what pronouns one prefers, clearly it follows that shaming and decrying someone who wishes not to do so is antithetical to the stated aim. Cynically one could say that if this were the case, it was never about individuals' freedom to express their preferred pronoun.

Are you sure you are not giving out signals that the mistake is a big deal to you? It would be hard to squeeze a cigarette paper between a post-doc and faculty, they are virtually the same thing (at least where I'm from). A few years from now would the question be: was mistaken for associate professor when, in fact, I have tenure...?

Just a point of information: the fact that you are mentioning the hackers means that you are directly referring to those who gained information relating the the DNC and published (perhaps cherrypicked) information relating to Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. You mention "libel" in relation to this, which is not appropriate, as libel is only relevant in the case of lies. By definition the publication of information in itself cannot be considered lies. The publication of fake-news does not need require any hacking to be conducted (because it's fake) and is a separate issue.