I don't see what being a geek or uber-geek has to do with it. "Honey" is just a form of affection for people in relationships, so why wouldn't Reed (or anyone, regardless of the age and level of geekiness) use it?
I grew up with and have known (and met in graduate school) a LOT of uber geeks.
Not one of them ever referred to his partner/lover as "honey" in my presence.
To this reader, uber-geek Reed calling Sue 'honey' sounded completely artificial and took me out of the story.
I went to a math and science HS - if ever there was a place for the uber-geek that was it - and teenagers, no matter how geeky, use affectionate words with/for each other.
We've just had different experiences, I s'pose.
Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi
