Angelina Jolie: Brave or Extreme?

If you've been in front of a TV, a computer or a newspaper in the past week you've surely heard about Angelina Jolie's decision to undergo a double mastectomy, but not everyone thinks she deserves the praise she is getting.

Jennifer Graham, a Boston Globe columnist and Hopkinton resident said she thinks the praise for her is overkill.

"Let’s put the brakes on the canonization, and on the dubious extrapolation that what one highly visible woman has done is a best practice," Graham writes. "Jolie, a person of extraordinary privilege, has exercised an option that’s not available to most women — and that many women wouldn’t choose even if they could."

Graham continues in her column to say that because Jolie has a husband, Brad Pitt, and several children she does not need to fear the repercussions of not attracting love or breast-feeding her future children. 

"Jolie’s decision, while no doubt agonizing, is much different from the decision facing a similarly threatened woman in her 20s who has not yet found a partner or nursed an infant," Graham wrote.

What do you think about Jolie's decision and the media coverage of it?