afaict from my time spent in online furry spaces, a lot of furries (a lot as in way too fuckin many) seem to completely forget there are literal people inside these costumes, even as they themselves wear fursuits. many people, in suit or otherwise, seem to run up to suiters and just hug them or otherwise fuck with em without ever asking for consent, or coming in from a blindspot and taking the suiter by complete surprise, or fucking with their tails, whatever.
poodling, imo, actively discourages the disconnection people will have to a suiter - you can literally see the skin of the person underneath the suit. if people are still touching a poodler without consent first, then that is an immediate red flag if it somehow inexplicably wasn't already; those people are unsafe to be around, and are going to be making a lot of people uncomfortable.
