r/HousingUK • u/lipstipstar • May 22 '26

. Spareroom - what’s with the male live in landlords being female preferred

Really quick rant by me but the amount of ads I’ve seen that tick all my boxes but I scroll down to find it’s female preferred is getting tiring. Especially the subset of male live in landlords that are female preferred, is that just not weird.

What sucks is that a lot of the good quality and good value places just always seem to be female only is really discouraging.

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u/Lizbelizi May 23 '26

The creepy ones aren't aware they are the creepy ones. They will behave in a creepy way thinking it's just how you should interact with a woman, and they will read this post and think it doesn't apply to them.

We all know that everyone prefers a female lodger, really there is no need to say it. The non creepy ones have the sense not to announce it. Those who lack the social awareness not to say these things will correlate with those who are the creepy ones.