Its high time the words racist misogyny entered the conversation about the Atlanta spa shootings .

On Tuesday evening, police say, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long walked into three different massage parlors in the Atlanta area and fatally shot a total of eight people, including six women of Asian descent.

Slowly, names of the victims are being released: Delaina Yaun, 33, of Acworth; Paul Andre Michels, 54, of Atlanta; Xiaojie Tan, 49, of Kennesaw; and Daoyou Feng, 44. Other victims have not yet been identified.

Long told investigators he had sexual addiction issues and had targeted the spas in an attempt to remove that temptation, Cherokee County Sheriffs Office spokesperson Capt. Jay Baker said in a press briefing on Wednesday.

To the utter bafflement of many on social media, police said that it was too early to determine if racism was at play. (It certainly didnt help matters that Baker had summed up the previous nights events as a really bad day for the suspected shooter.)

A temptation he wanted to eliminate is how Baker described Longs thought process that night. A temptation that led him specifically to Asian-owned and operated massage parlors. We cant overlook that the shootings occurred at places like Youngs Asian Massage, not some generic Massage Envy he spotted off the side of the road.

I dont care that the shooter told police his attack wasnt racially-motivated, tweeted feminist author Jessica Valenti . The fetishization of Asian women is racist. Believing women are responsible & to blame for your sexual temptations is misogynist. This was a racist misogynist crime.

In the course of just under an hour , the shooter ended eight lives, apparently placing the need to eliminate sexual temptation from his life above the humanity of Asian women.