WHAT IS IT ABOUT GENDO AND WOMEN!? To me, Gendo is a

It's like that thing in Final Fantasy 7 with that thing with Hojo and
Lucrecia women! What would a sweet women like Lucrecia see in a total
dick like Hojo?!

My theory is that Gendo has a mojo like Austin Powers. No matter how many
faults he has, women find him attractive. He was arrested for bar fights,
cheated on his wife, called Naoko "obaasan", was indirectly his wife's cause
of death, abandoned Shinji, forced him to pilot Eva, used the dummy plug to
damn near kill Toji, and he probably drinks milk from the carton and puts it
back in the fridge after spitting in it, yet Ritsuko still likes him. It's
got to be the mojo. As for Lucrecia, she was probably raped. Hojo is too
sick not to do something like that.