AIBU and over sensitive or is this against the law?

[Wishforsnow]

Just looking on my local Facebook pages and someone is renting a room. They are looking for a working Asian female only. It just seems wrong that you can advertise specifying race and work status. OK maybe get the work to ensure paying bills. Is it worth reporting to the moderators for the site?

When I was room hunting a few years ago I saw lots asking for professional female, which is fair enough as a) they want someone who's working not sitting round the house who may be unable to pay rent and b) the ones I saw were all female live in landlords who didn't want a strange man in their home. Occasionally a house share would specify male or female to keep a roughly even balance of the sexes

Maybe if advertising for Asian woman only, the person is obviously a female Asian herself, and wants to share the house with someone who shares the perimeters of her religious demands, such as only having halal food on the premises, no male visitors outside family members, and no alcohol etc. I can see why that would be important to someone in that situation tbh.

This was my first thought tbh. If I was a young Asian/Indian/Muslim woman I'd definitely be looking to share only with someone who understood the challenges of that, especially right now.

Lots of my Asian friends would be forbidden from having a non-Asian, female lodger or house sharer by their wider families. sad but true.

I have one mate who calls me by a different name when she answers the phone so that her mum and dad don't find out she has non Asian Friends.

I don't blame her/them. I blame the shitty part of the 'culture' that allows her parents to exert such control over her life. (Think weeping and wailing when she was seen out with a non white friend drinking having a coffee)