Open displays of anger can be socially powerful, and if what you're angry about is something you perceive as an ongoing interpersonal transgression it can cause

Open displays of anger can be socially powerful, and if what you're angry about is something you perceive as an ongoing interpersonal transgression it can cause the other person to stop and apologize, which may give you relief. Of course backing off and using more concrete language, you could describe the same thing as "using a tantrum to intimidate someone into submission." Something people rarely do with their social equals, so generally children, maybe spouses. A lot of men describe their outbursts as calming in this context. They're possibly right, if you focus very narrowly on their own experience of it.