Generally, I agree with Huber, and err on the side of accepting that if people have taken offense to something, their feelings on the matter are valid.
With that said, in the context of the Last of Us trailer - I do think it's all a bit overblown.
I mean, the trailer is literally getting criticised for its depiction of violence against women. Am I wrong in thinking that nothing shown in the trailer really relates to the real life issue our society is currently struggling to deal with? It wasn't making light of or celebrating inflicting violence against women. It was simply showing an act of violence against a woman. Is that really something that we should be censoring? Would anyone have batted an eye if the trailer featured the exact same content, but with men instead of women? I...honestly don't think so. I also don't think anything we saw is at odds with what we already knew of the world of The Last of Us from the first game, so the idea that people are shocked by the tone and graphic nature is pretty surprising to me.
I think the anger you're referring to is born out of fear that companies and the like will take this reaction to heart, and refrain from tackling things like this in the future out of fear of potential backlash.