The nauseatingly patriarchal attack by the CITU State Secretary K N Gopinath on the striking ASHA workers sets a new low, but it is not unexpected. K N Gopinath’s ugly, sexually-coloured remark was about the BJP MP Suresh Gopi’s visit to the protest site. After the police pulled down the did not allow the tarpaulin shelters, the striking workers continued the strike in the pouring rain. The MP distributed umbrellas to the workers. Gopinath said that he knew that the MP distributed umbrellas, but he did not know if “he distributed kisses” there. When questioned, he admitted that the reference was to a sexual harassment complaint against the MP. The man kept defending his offensive remark, in his own admittance a sexually-coloured one, even when questioned strongly by journalists.