Red Pill: The Flaky Chick Phenomenon Part 2

The word “flake” — in the context of this article — is believed to come from a 1920s word for cocaine. Thus, someone described as “flaky” is akin to a cokehead — messed up, deranged, unstable and all over the place. In the USA, the word has currently come to be used to describe a certain kind of person, especially a female, as flakiness appears to be significantly more prevalent among the female population, hence “flaky chick” — the word “chick” being a 1950s beatnik word for a girl, plainly related to the Spanish word for young girl, “chica”. The noun is “flake”. So one would hear the expression: “She’s a real flake”. 

In the Urban Dictionary, the definition of “flake” is: “An unreliable person. A procrastinator. A careless or lazy person. Dishonest and doesn’t keep to their word. They’ll tell you they’re going to do one thing, and never do it. They’ll tell you that they’ll meet you somewhere, and show up an hour late or don’t show up at all. Example: ‘She told me she would send me her pictures, but it’s been 3 months and she hasn’t sent me s~~~. She’s flaky as hell’.”