House's mom aside, I don't think it's that Wilson's mom was self-effacing in the same way.

I think it's that his mom had some very screwed up expectations of him, of the sort that are usually only aimed at girls and women in our culture. She taught him to do the things he does, either by example or by insistence or both. He had to learn it from somewhere, and it's hard to imagine he got it from his dad.

Oh, and that was me, if you didn't guess yet. I'd been logged into the Collective account for a while.