^This.

No, I'm not going to hit you with that dead fish, but I'm glad it's been said.

The behavior is caused by mental illness, not gender.

My father had a diagnosed but untreated mental illness, and we never knew what might set him off. He'd be full of jokes one day, and have us afraid to utter a whisper the next. My mother eventually had to leave him for our physical safety. He had a violent temper, not because he was a man. It was because he had an illness and was not seeing a doctor or taking medication.