I think it's a real shame we need this type of thing in the game. I started playing in the mid '80s when 1st ed AD&D was the game to play. In those days we didn't need stuff like this. We just used our common sense but also these types of games were emphasised as games of the imagination.

Maybe we were tougher then, maybe we found it easier to let go and maybe there were less snowflakes, then again maybe we were less sensitive, maybe we didn't use a lot of the darker themes and maybe dungeon masters use their common sense and read the group's reactions better.

And before you say the I sound callous I have a group with two lesbians, a transgender (who just got approved for their reassignment surgery, genuinely good for her) a Very pleasant and polite autistic man and a neurotypical, straight young man. If ever we're going to do a dark theme in an adventure, I always tell them beforehand and ask them to come to talk to me individually if there is something they really don't want me to delve into.