Archive for April, 2022

Cocksure: Pro-Fracking Page Cleans Up Act, Remains Obnoxious

April 26, 2022

The formerly vile and offensive Texas gasfield worker Facebook page, FracPridereceived a Public Relations overhaul in recent weeks. Now it’s just offensive.

You’ve got to hand it to the young men and women who work on shale gas rigs. They’re tough and they know how to innovate. Ever since Rachel Maddow displayed the image of a truck javelined by steel rigging on a frack pad in Hemp-Hill County, Texas – a photo that originated on this now infamous page – those guys have really tried to improve the image they project. Gone are photos of mangled equipment and crude pranks. Now, it’s all sunsets, shiny trucks and sweet, little faces, with only a whiff of its former misogyny.   (more…)