A married journalist has sparked fierce debate after sharing a bizarre New York Times opinion piece slamming matrimony.

University of Virginia Professor and author Brad Wilcox was among the first to call out the feature as he branded it as ‘inverted hypocrisy.’

The story, which was published from the transcript of an excerpt from the Times podcast, The Opinions, had a headline that read, ‘People still want to marry. Why aren’t they?’

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Meanwhile, the title of the podcast was ‘Why Is Marriage Less Attractive Than Ever?,’ the same title which also appears on X (formerly known as Twitter).

The podcast episode featured a conversation between author Glynnis MacNicol, in addition to Times Opinion editor Meher Ahmad and Opinion writer Jessica Grose.

In the NY Times piece, the three writers spoke about the various reasons why women aren’t getting married these days, and why it may not be the goal any .

Parts of their conversation stemmed from a recent survey from Pew Research Center, which 48 percent of women reported that being married ‘was not too or at all important for a fulfilling life,’ compared to 39 percent of men who felt that way.

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During the piece, Grose acknowledged that she had been married for many years, but the three of them spoke about the various factors that went into why people aren’t getting married today, which included the curious world of online dating, and a world where women are now ‘financially self-sufficient.’

However, Wilcox, who is the author of ‘Get Married,’ was happy with her perspective, as he took to X on Tuesday to share his own thoughts on the matter.

Wilcox, a sociologist, particularly took issue in a comment left by Grose in the comments section of the article, in which she replied to someone who had written that marriage should be a ‘sanctuary’ and that it’s ‘worth the risk.’

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‘NYT writer discounts marriage in NYT from a place of privilege acknowledged in the comments section (AKA “I’ve basically been happily married since my 20s but don’t feel comfortable making a public argument for the institution that has benefited me personally.”) Many such cases,’ Wilcox wrote on X in response to the Times’ story.

He included a screengrab of the writer’s comment that he was lamenting about in response to marriage being ‘a sanctuary,’ which read: ‘I agree! I don’t think anything I said suggests that marriage cannot be a pleasure or a sanctuary.

‘I met my husband at 23 and we’ve been together since then. But my priorities aren’t everybody’s priorities,’ Grose had written in response.

Later, Wilcox wrote outanother message on Xabout the piece and comment, in which he called it ‘inverted hypocrisy.’

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‘Classic example of “inverted hypocrisy” from our elites. NYT writer enjoys good marriage of her own in private but is allergic to talking up value of marriage in public,’ Wilcox wrote.

Daily Mail reached out to The New York Times for comment.

When reached for comment by Daily Mail, Wilcox expressed frustration around the piece’s headline.

‘The New York Times conversation on marriage appropriately underlined the difficulties young woman across the ideological spectrum are facing in finding a marriageable man. Fair enough,’ Wilcox wrote Daily Mail via email on Tuesday.

‘But what a dreadful headline — “Why is Marriage Less Attractive than Ever?” The New York Times conversation completely overlooked the evidence that women who are married today are better off financially, less lonely, report meaning in their lives, and are happier,’ he stated, citing a new report from the psychologist Jean Twenge.

Wilcox explained to Daily Mail that Twenge and her colleagues found that married women reported having ‘joy, physical touch, meaning and happiness in their lives.’

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‘Too bad the New York Times was so oblivious to the good news about marriage for women,’ Wilcox shared.

There were users who agreed with Wilcox’s take on X.

‘Failing to talk the walk!’ replied author Leah Libresco Sargeant.

‘Luxury beliefs,’ wrote another X user, who also tagged author Rob Hendersonknown for creating the concept of ‘luxury beliefs,’ a term he describes as ‘a new way of understanding the American status system.’

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Others, however, didn’t think that Wilcox’s argument held up.

‘I am not sure what you point is other than a happily married man does not want to lecture other people how to live. I am happily married 27 year old man but I am going tell other men they HAVE to be married by 27,’ one person typed in response.

‘Could do some decent skiing on those coattails,’ another remarked.

Someone else asked, ‘What about the epistemic advantages of lived experience?’

Wilcox is currently the Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.

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The project’s missions is to ‘provide research and analysis on the health of marriage in America, to analyze the social and cultural forces shaping contemporary marriage, and to identify strategies to increase marital quality and stability.’

Wilcox is also the Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.