What does Jem tell Scout about girls?

At the
end of ,happens upon ,and Dill, who are playing a game called "." The children know
that Atticus will be displeased if he finds out that they are playing a game based on stories
about their neighbor, and Scout, for this reason, wants to quit the game. In response, Jem tells
Scout that she is "being a girl," and he tells her that "girls always imagine
things," and "that's why people hate them so."

Jem also tells
Scout that if she wants to behave, as he puts it, like a girl, then she can "just go off
and find some (other girls) to play with."

Earlier in chapter 4, after
Scout refuses to retrieve the tire from the Radleys' front yard, Jem tells her, reproachfully,
that, "sometimes you act so much like a girl it's mortifyin'."

It's
clear from these examples that Jem has a rather low opinion of girls. He seems to think, above
all else, that they are far too easily frightened. It is perhaps because, or at least partly
because of Jem's ideas about girls, that Scout becomes something of a
tomboy.