It’s So My Mom.

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Samsung launched a social media site called “Moms Like Us” last August. The site has all the trappings of a virtual watering hole or peanut gallery for moms obsessed with washer and dryer tips and news.

Inevitably, a man started a thread on the site accusing Samsung of being old-fashioned for assuming that mommies are the only ones that do laundry or are interested in washer-dryer news–and the chance to win one, another of the site’s draws.

But what I find unprogressive–or maybe just more whitewashed–are the site’s hokey interactive polls. The current one asks what it would take “for your husband to help with the laundry.” The options range from “baseball tickets” to “action movies” to “not throwing away his lucky shirt.”

Come ON. In my apartment, my boyfriend does more laundry than me. And if I had to bribe him, he wouldn’t give a flip about those choices. I’m not starring in some color version of Donna Reed here.

And neither are my parents. My mom’s bait would probably entail some promise of three consecutive trips to the buffet, turning off her morning dose of Christian talk radio, or ditching my grandpa from Sunday lunch.

She could probably get a years worth outta my dad if she let him punch one of her proselytizing, vitamin-peddling friends.

And I mean ONE in particular.