le for all harassment which goes on in the workplace. While the court has broadened the scope of Title VII to include same sex harassment, it has increased the restrictions to validate all harassment cases. If a claim does not fall into the guidelines set forth in the Oncale case it leaves certain victims with no alternate route or cause of action in the legal system. This allows the "equal opportunity harasser" who discriminates on both male and female employees to be beyond the scope of Title VII since the harassment is not because of sex. Some concerns for the long-range effects of the Oncale decision have been voiced. Fears that the broadened scope of Title VII claims will allow, "a flood of sexual harassment claims from a class of people who have never faced barriers to gender equality in the workplace," and the ultimate result being lesser protection for those women and men the legislature was intending to protect.The courts acknowledge the existence of a fine line between horseplay and flirtation that may be a normal part of the workplace, and sexual harassment as discrimination in the workplace. The opinion of the court was written in a way to only forbid objectively offensive behavior to protect against frivolous claims....
