Considering your arguments are calling articles "braindead crap" without explaining why...
That was an opinion, not an argument.
The article was paragraph after paragraph of weasel words and subjective judgments all predicated on a single incorrect fact. That meets my criteria of brain dead crap. When someone can fill five paragraphs of outrage over one fact they got wrong, I'm happy to call them braindead and their output crap.
...calling feminists mostly braindead pieces of garbage...
I have gotten into hundreds of arguments about feminism with feminists, and in less than 1% of those conversations has the person I have been arguing with been reasonable, rational or acted in a civil manner. Less than 1%. Instead, they always resort to crap like this:
...your masogynistic bias shows and your credibility falls.
First of all, it's misogynistic. If you're going to fling feminist cuss words at me, at least spell them right. And that's all that is, a feminist cuss word. It doesn't mean anything, except that someone has once again disagreed with a feminist.
Second, I don't have any bias against women. Since I actually try to avoid feminists by avoiding their forums and politics in general, most feminists I encounter are in fandom forums and are men.
When I say most feminists are braindead morons who wouldn't know a rational argument from a hole in the ground, I am DEFINITELY including men in that statement. Disliking feminists and disliking women are not the same thing, because feminist is a set, like christian or libertarian, that includes some people of both sexes and does not include most people of both sexes.
That is exactly what I mean by braindead pieces of garbage. You don't address the actual point I'm making, and instead you accuse me of hating women.
That's all you feminists ever do. Ignore people's points, dismiss their arguments, and accuse them of hating women. It's all you can do, because -- durr -- BRAINDEAD.
Only three items of merch is significantly low, though not zero, you are right about that I guess.
You should have read Vanity Fair's version of this non-story. It, as far as I can tell, is the only one that bothers to report the correction Disney offered to the incorrect fact. I'll quote you the relevant part:
Disney Consumer Products contacted Vanity Fair with the following statement: “Black Widow is a staple in the Marvel Universe with a robust consumer products program. Tied to the release of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Marvel has over 60 Black Widow SKUS across diverse categories such as Hot Wheels, action figures, video games, t-shirts, costumes and collectibles, with even more products available for back to school and Halloween.”
So you're only off by a factor of twenty. But hey, keep fucking that chicken.
The topic of conversation is about women being poorly represented in merch, so bringing up Hawkeye having none is a straw man. I don't know why he isn't represented. Maybe it's a contract thing. Maybe his merch didn't track well with the first Avengers, so like my point before with following outdated trends, they decided to cut him from marketing. It still doesn't disprove the obvious lack of female representation in the marketing for these films. By bringing it up you are definitely straw manning this argument.
You have no idea what a straw man is, do you? A straw man is when someone rebuts a weaker version of the argument you are making as if they had rebutted your argument. I am not strawmanning your argument.
By bringing up Hawkeye, I am not straw manning your argument, I am suggesting alternative explanations for the fact under contention. For example, on the Marvel Store there is less Black Widow (28 items) merchandise than Captain America (115 items), Iron Man (113 items), Thor (99 items) and Hulk (89 items) merchandise, but more than Hawkeye (23 items), Vision (10 items), Scarlet Witch (5 items), or Quicksilver (1 item).
One explanation for why there is a 4:1 ratio to Black Widow merch to Captain America merch is that Disney is a sexist, misogynistic company that is just stupid and hates both women and their money. <- Sadly, that ought to be strawman, but that is a fairly accurate summation of the point expressed in the dozens of articles about this entirely non-story.
Here are some alternate explanations:
I don't know why she isn't represented. Maybe it's a contract thing. Maybe her merch didn't track well with the first Avengers, so like my point before with following outdated trends, they decided to cut her from marketing.
NOW do you see why Hawkeye is relevant? In explaining the lack of Hawkeye merchandise, you have explained the lack of Black Widow merchandise -- and look, you didn't even have to attribute malign motivations to Marvel to do it!